==> Regarding [autofs] Problems with automounts dying; "Steinar H. Gunderson" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:

sgunderson> Hi, Lately I've been receiving multiple bug reports about
sgunderson> autofs starting to forget mountpoints, for instance:

sgunderson>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=349073

sgunderson> Does anybody else experience this? I can't reproduce it myself,
sgunderson> but it sounds very much real :-) Any ideas?

>From the bug:

 For many months now, automount forgets mountpoints shortly after using
 them for the first time.
 ...

 During the first cd, automount might log something like the following:
   Jan 20 21:07:21 cerebro automount[17613]: failed to mount /fs/doom_localvol4

This sounds like the kernel is caching a negative dentry indefinitely.  Ian
fixed this a while back.

Note that this looks to be the side-effect of another problem, though.  Can
you get debug logs for this?  Ideally, you'd gather everything requested in
the "Filing bug reports" section of the following web page:

    http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer/

I hope this helps.

-Jeff

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