Re: Automounter does not start except at bootup

[H. Peter Anvin]

> 
>    > Or is there another simple official procedure, how to deal with
>    > these situations and avoid reboot?
>    
>    Yes, you explicitly umount *that directory*.  Note you can't have
>    processes holding the filesystem busy, no matter what you do.  It just
>    *cannot* work.
> 
> Can you rename the "intercept points" so that the new incarnation has
> a new hierarchy to mount things on?
> 
> Caveats:  Dunix doesn't support autofs so there's lots I don't know.
> Judging from a discussion in nfs-devel, there's a lot I don't know about
> Linux's VFS, etc.
> 

That was one of the ideas.  I'm not too keen on the idea as I believe
it will greatly complicate the user-space side of autofs, but I will
see if it can be done more resonably.

        -hpa