Greetings...
   I just recently upgraded to RH 7.0 from 6.2. Not having any *major*
problems, but one minor problem is getting a bit annoying... In our
network we use "autofs" to automount home directories.  When the home
directory is physically on another machine, autofs does a great job of
mounting the directory via NFS.  The problem occurs when the home
directory is physically on the *same* machine as the user.  When the
user *first* tries to access the directory, autofs mount fails with the
following message:

Apr 14 00:11:31 piper modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module bind
Apr 14 00:11:31 piper automount[31498]: >> mount: fs type bind not
supported by kernel

If the user immediately tries a second time, the mount succeeds.  Under
RH 6.2, this did not occur, and the mount request worked the first
time.  I understand that autofs is going to a "bind" type of mount for
local filesystems under the 2.4.x kernels, but 2.2.x series don't
support it.  Is there any way to turn this behavior off? It gets
annoying when programs such as samba, netscape & apache, fail
occasionally because a file could not be found, not to mention user
irritation at having to occasionally give the same command twice...

John

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