Scott McDermott wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Well...the reason I thought autofs might be involved is because I saw a
> bug report of "RPC: garbage...retrying...EIO" that appeared on much
> earlier knfs list archives (1998), and one of the explanations a knfs
> author suggested was that amd was munging RPC packets. I don't know
> enough about autofs to gather whether it could cause this problem, but
> it seemed to me that if it made sense for amd to be responsible, then so
> could be autofs.
>
Sorry, amd is a fake NFS server; autofs is not.
-hpa
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