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Bug 253250

Summary:	Autofs negative cache regression
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Guil Barros <gbarros>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Ian Kent <ikent>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.4	CC:	ikent, jmoyer
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Regression, Reopened
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2009-04-07 15:24:03 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	422551, 430698, 461297

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2007-08-17 15:45:50 UTC

This bugzilla has Keywords: Regression.  

Since no regressions are allowed between releases, 
it is also being proposed as a blocker for this release.  

Please resolve ASAP.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-08-17 15:55:23 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 3 Jeff Moyer 2007-08-17 19:51:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212249 ***

Comment 4 Ian Kent 2007-08-27 06:35:06 UTC

This bug is for to re-instate the negative timeout
within the autofs4 kernel module. Bug #212249 is
actually is tracking the addition of this functionality
in the user space daemon.

A separate task.

Ian

Comment 5 Ian Kent 2008-04-15 05:37:08 UTC

The addition of mount failure caching proved to be much more
complex than I had hoped and there was a reported oops that
I wasn't able to track down.

This functionality has been implemented in the user space
daemon for the time being but we would prefer it be handled
in the kernel module as it should use less overhead.

So I need to defer this.
Ian

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2008-04-15 05:50:25 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2008-09-03 13:06:18 UTC

Updating PM score.

Comment 8 Ian Kent 2009-04-07 15:24:03 UTC

As described in comment #5 it isn't viable or sensible to get the
caching of failed mount requests to work within the autofs4 kernel
module (this stopped working due to VFS changes in the 2.6 kernel).

Since considerable effort has been invested in providing this
functionality in the user space autofs application in our 2.6 kernel
based products I'm closing this bug as WONTTFIX.

Ian