On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:30:03PM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:13:20AM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote: >>> Dear Experts, >>> >>> sm-notify was taking a long time while my laptop booted. This was >>> odd because I use NFS only rarely - via autofs - on that machine, and >>> sm-notify actually has no-one to notify most of the time. So I have >>> patched it as follows. Is this a legitimate thing to do? >> >> It looks like your patch was committed to nfs-utils a couple weeks ago: >> see c8d18e26d2a53d9036a32c2dafebccaf4ce1634d from >> >> git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-utils >> >> --b. > > How curious. I guess someone saw my Debian bug report. No mention of > it on this list as far as I can see though. > > I presume from this that it is considered a safe thing to do. It looks right to me. Hopefully somebody actually has tested this on a client that holds locks when it reboots? I remember this was one of the things Arjan mentioned having to disable in his "5-second boot" talk at the Linux Plumbers Conference, so you're not the only one to have noticed the problem.... --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
