Scott McDermott wrote:
>
> 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.
>
And daemon?
> 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.
Right. That would be a good example on how autofs can expose NFS bugs...
static mounts just aren't created that often, and usually are only
destroyed immediately before the machine is rebooted. A lot of corner
cases in umount() especially can go unnoticed.
> But for the original problems the server was up the whole time...
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