According to the man page for mount on my RedHat and slackware systems, yup, they're using /etc/mtab Richard Ems wrote: > Thanks Frank, but I 'm not sure if it's a nfs problem ... > Does mount and umount use really /etc/mtab and not /proc/mounts or are they using > both? > Who is responsible of maintaining /etc/mtab up to date? > How do you actualize /etc/mtab with cron? > > Richard > > Frank Schafer wrote: > > > Hi Richard, > > > > we had such a problem (mount/unmount) too, and it seems to us, this is a NFS > > related problem. > > I tried to mount some nfs share via automount for test purpose but didn't have > > success. > > After that I realized, that I couldn't mount this share even explicitly. > > ``showmount'' says <<Hey man, this share is MOUNTED>>, and nothing. I found > > this share in ``/etc/mtab'' too -- of course. > > Then we realized, that mountd don't actualize ``/etc/mtab'', if a machine goes > > down (evtl a crash). > > We solved this by ``cron''-icle actualizing mtab. There doesnt be to be a > > solution for NFS. At least we didn't find anything about this on the WEB. > > Another solution could be to explicitly unmount the share, before the machine > > goes down. > > > > Hope this helps > > Frank > > > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > What happened with this thread? Is it resolved? Where's the solution? > > > Any new patches? > > > I'm having also tremendous problems with autofs. > > > We are running 2.2.18 + autofsV4 patch (why doesn't autofsV4 get into > > > the 2.2.x tree??? it would be really nice not to have to patch every > > > time a new kernel comes out!), autofs-4.0.0pre9 and util-linux-2.10r on > > > a SuSE 7.0 distro on 4 Pc's, 2 of them UP, the other 2 SMP. Only using > > > ext2, nfs vesion 3. > > > > > > One problem is when we plug a laptop to our net and mount using autofs > > > the /home directory from this laptop. The mounting works without any > > > problems, but when the laptop goes down the automounter doesn't manage > > > to umount the previously mounted directories, so when the laptop some > > > time later comes up again it's impossible to get the laptop's exported > > > directories mounted again. > > > > > > I'm also getting this message when autofs starts: > > > automount[7646]: >> mount: fs type none not supported by kernel > > > but I think this is a problem in the /etc/auto.net file from the SuSE > > > 7.0 distro, or am I wrong in my assumption? > > > > > > Comments? Suggestions? Solutions? Patches? Autofs Version 4 into 2.2.x? > > > Is autofs in 2.4.x working better? > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > -- > > > Richard Ems > > > ... e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ... Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg > > > > > > Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are. > > -- > Richard Ems > ... e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ... Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg > > Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
