Re: kmod or autofs strangeness?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
21 Mar 1998 19:56:02 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980321190753.6183A-100000@narayan>
By author: Jakob Borg <jb@k2.lund.se>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Note that the second two processes starts up successfully while the first
> dies with the "no kernel support" message. Sometimes all succeed,
> sometimes all fail. After bootup i can stop/start the autofs any amount I
> like without an error.
>
> My system is a Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 i586mmx 166mhz 430tx. The kernel is
> (now) compiled with egcs-2.90.27 -march=pentium but I had same problem on
> 2.1.90 compiled with older gcc 2.7.2.3. Other info and .config on request.
>
> Clues?
>

Looks like there is a race condition in the kmod support for new
filesystem types, that can cause it to return error when loading a new
module. Once the module is loaded, however, it will work fine.

-hpa

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