Re: Mount-point vanishes

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On 18-Feb-00 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> These kinds of issues are part of why mount-trees are *very* complex. 
> There are all kinds of funny race conditions involved, too, since most
> of these operations can't be performed under lock.

There is a lock, of sorts, because the autofs filesystem blocks processes from
the tree while it is being manipulated.  The issue here is that the daemon will
pretend things worked even if not all the mounts succeeded, which is probably a
bug.

        J