Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:14:48AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Please set up syslog to log with debug priority. Odds are that it's an
> > issue with NIS+ lookups, but it could be a VFS problem in recent 2.2.x
> > kernels.
>
> Looks like something changed in 2.2 and 2.4 which makes autofs fail to
> follow a symlink which has just been created by the daemon. It affects
> both autofs 3 and autofs 4. I haven't looked into it in depth yet.
> It isn't a big issue for 2.4 because mount --bind works much better
> than a symlink, but it should be fixed for 2.2.
>
This would make sense. I'll try to pick it apart tomorrow. *Sigh.*
-hpa
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