[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have been working with an autofs installation that uses ~64 automounted
> partitions. When we shutdown the daemon with
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
>
> the SysV init script issues a TERM signal to all automount
> pid's at once. Apparently these processes don't do a nice
> job locking their access to /etc/mtab, since we are left
> with a corrupted afterwards. If this happens during a
> system shutdown, other partitions then don't get unmounted
> properly, forcing us into a LONG fsck at reboot, at every reboot.
>
automount doesn't touch /etc/mtab. This would be a /bin/mount problem.
-hpa
