On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> On 18-Feb-00 Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> > Yes, but that doesn't explain why I was able to clear /net/cy/* using a
> > umount, then have a second attempt also fail to mount the cy:/ export.
> > Unless... Are you saying that a SIGUSR1 is required in _addition_ (or in
> > lieu of) a successful 'umount'?
>
> When you do the umount it unmounts the filesystem, but it leaves the
> mount-point dirs there. autofs will only trigger a mount if you go
> into a non-existent directory, or if the directory is empty. In this
> case, the top-level directory (cy) was not empty because of the
> usr/src mountpoint, so "cd /net/cy" just means 'go into the existing
> directory /net/cy'.
Ok, thanks for the explanation. I guess the real question is why didn't
they both come back after the timeout. I'll peruse the server logs and
see if anything jumps out.
Steve
