>
> Unfortunately there are other user processes using the mounts so I
> can't really just kill them all off to restart automount. It would be
> nice if automount could keep some table like mtab of mounts that were
> setup by it and then when it is restarted it takes control of them
> again.
>
> I imagine the official line on this is that you don't need to restart
> an automount process because you can just change the map file and it
> should take effect immediately. The "autofs reload|restart" only kills
> or starts mounts which have changed in the auto.master file.
>
> I guess I'll either have to kill those processes or permanently mount
> the directories until the next reboot!
>
Basically, in autofs v3 there is no way of taking control over an
abandoned automount, and I haven't been planning on that kind of
support for autofs v4 either; it is really hard to do and I see very
little benefit to it.
-hpa
