H. Peter Anvin on Tue 2/01 19:29 -0800:
> Which version of autofs?
I am not sure of a specific version, but it is not any of the v4
patches, it's whatever comes with 2.2.18pre19. Latest fs/autofs/dir.c
from the tree I used is from 1999 it seems.
Incidentally, I just rebooted the client a couple of hours after I
posted that message. It shut down and came up fine. A few hours (and
many autofs mounts and unmounts) later I rebooted the server; after it
came back up, the client started spitting out "RPC: garbage" errors like
no tomorrow. A reboot of the client cured this problem. Other clients
which had the server mounted the whole time, but never had to expire the
mounts (even on autofs filesystems) appeared to work fine. I think it
may be true that if autofs tried to expire the mounts while the server
was down, or if it tried to mount anything while the server was down,
then "RPC: garbage" would result once the server came back up.
But for the original problems the server was up the whole time...
