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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

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