-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Kent Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:47 PM To: Matthew Mitchell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [autofs] "simultaneous" mounts causing weird behavior
> > The /tmp entry is caused by mount failing to handle overlapping requests. > Aaron Ogden and I have been there recently with autofs v4. > > The overlapping mount problem is likely causing the other problem as well. > I put some altogether ugly code, which shouldn't work at all, but seems > to, into autofs v4 to deal with this. In fact I hated it so much, I > removed it at one point and Aaron was horrified to find everything broken > again. > > Also, since the bind mount was only a test I added the -n flag to it to > get rid of the /tmp mount entries. Maybe Peter would like to try something > like that in autofs v3. Ugly or not, autofs 4.1.0 beta2 is working pretty well over here. :-) Once the hung mountpoint problem gets resolved I will be a happy camper. Ian, any word on when autofs 4.1.0 final might be released? Re: /tmp mount entries, I found it to be a good indicator of problems with autofs (overlapping mounts, etc.) so it was actually useful in a way. -A _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
