Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - zero timeout prevents shutdown

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:33:52 +0800
Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 21:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:48:15 +0800 (WST)
> > Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > If the timeout of an autofs mount is set to zero then umounts
> > > are disabled. This works fine, however the kernel module checks
> > > the expire timeout and goes no further if it is zero. This is
> > > not the right thing to do at shutdown as the module is passed
> > > an option to expire mounts regardless of their timeout setting.
> > 
> > Is this a new feature, or a regression since <when>?
> 
> It's a regression which I must have introduced a long time ago. I can go
> back and check the kernels if you'd like more specific info.
> 
> It should work this way and a recent report alerted me to it.
> 

Well..  I'm trying to work out if it's a 2.6.18 thing or whether we can
hold it over.

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