Hi
I'm posting to this list as a last resort, I've scoured the net for an answer
and I cant find any archives of this mailing list to see if I'm the 100th
person to ask this 8)
We've got a problem with the automounter on our main file server. As usual
the automount brings peoples homes into /home/<user> on demand. Other machines
on the network also mount homes off this machine using the automounter in a similar
way.
The problem arises when we get a stale NFS handle in /home and the automounter
dies. The automounter wont restart, complaining that its already running or
/home is busy. This seems to come from the entries in /proc/mounts.
Is there anyway to clear this without having to restart the machine? (which
causes stale NFS file handles on the clients, which then need restarting.....)
I thought there might be a way to send a signal or command to /proc/mount
along the lines of how you tell /proc/scsi/scsi to add or remove a device from
the bus.
C ya
Baz
