On Dec 19, 2007 10:56 PM, Tim Bunnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > I hope this is not a FAQ (I could not find it there in any case). We > have set up amanda (2.5.1p1) running on Debian 3.1 Linux to backup > automounted directories from a SnapServer 410. The configuration appears > to work OK with DLEs of the form: > > our.net.udel.edu /vol/dir our-gnutar > > Where /vol is our automount point and dir is the share exported by the > SnapServer. > > However, when amcheck or the dumper runs, we see one or more automount > errors indicating that things like /vol/rdir cannot be mounted for each > automounted DLE. We guess the 'r' in front of the 'dir' might come from > something like attempting to mount /vol/dir first as a raw device??? > > Does anyone know (a) if that is really the cause of the problem and/or > (b) how to make is stop? We fear it is just a matter of time before > someone decides to create a real share with a name like "rdir" that > conflicts with an existing "dir" share.
That is a *strange* error! Raw devices are handled as a prefix (RDEV_PREFIX), and are only used in getfsent. I would actually suspect some kind of weirdness from the automounter in this case. What are the errors? Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
