[sorry about the bottom-posting] On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Martin Dorey wrote: > martin>> Ian Kent suggests disabling the autofs locking, providing that > martin>> mount locks mtab properly. Does Debian's mount do that? > > steinar> strace seems to indicate that it does: > > Cool. I have *no* idea what I'm doing here but... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-get source autofs > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cd autofs-4.1.4 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/autofs-4.1.4$ wget -O > debian/patches/080_configurable_locking > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/autofs-4.1.4-configure > able-locking.patch > > ... and applying this patch... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ diff -u clean/autofs-4.1.4/debian/rules > autofs-4.1.4/debian/ > --- clean/autofs-4.1.4/debian/rules 2006-06-29 14:40:28.000000000 > -0700 > +++ autofs-4.1.4/debian/rules 2006-06-29 14:29:17.000000000 -0700 > @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ > dh_testdir > (cd $(BUILD_DIR) && \ > ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man \ > - --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) > --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) ) > + --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) > --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --disable-mount-locking) > touch $@ > > source.make: $(STAMP_DIR)/source.make > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ > > ... gave me something I could sudo dpkg-buildpackage; sudo dpkg -i > ../autofs_4.1.4-10_i386.deb and which then solved my problem.
Interesting. Ian, is this something that's feasible to enable for Debian, given that our mount seems to be locking mtab by itself? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
