> > Not in 2.1.84+. autofs doesn't work at all... At least, all versions
> > after the "unlikely occurrence" fix are broken for me. This isn't a
>
> You know, you could have reported this bug. autofs was horribly
> broken in 2.1.84, but 2.1.85 should have been fine.
It might have, but I don't think I tried 85.
Hang on...
<fx: Runs to other room with autofs failure box in>
<grovel>
Ooops. It seems to work fine now with CDs and Minix disk images, so it
must just be the floppy driver which is causing problems.
Sorry.
</grovel>
Out of curiosity, how could dodgy media (i.e. broken block driver) cause a
"lookup on existing dentry"? Does autofs make the dentry first and then
find that it has to retry the mount a few times?
Matthew.
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