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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, Universit�t Hamburg
> >
> > Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
--
Richard Ems
... e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... Fachbereich Informatik, Universit�t Hamburg
Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
