Ian Kent wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, jansen wrote:


Hi,

I've been struggling to figure out why autofs does not appear
to unmount many mount points.  I have more than 150 entries in
a map file and most of these entries get mounted when I log into
a Gnome session and never seem to ever get unmounted.  This
happened under RedHat 8.0 (autofs-3.1.7-33) and still happens on
SuSE 9.0 (autofs-3.1.7-717).  I'm guessing that Nautilus is doing
this.  Is anyone else seeing this?  Any suggestions on how to prevent
or debug this?  I can provide more details if anyone is interested.


Bit unfortunate they never umount.

The problem is that Nautilus scans the directory if/when it notices umount activity. This causes a remount. I couldn't find a way to trun it off. The list of directories to scan is help in a file (I can't remember where now) and I was able to stop it, to some extent, by cleaning it out and changing the modes on the file (for non-root login anyway).

I started working on this some time ago but did not get anywhere before other things took priority. To fix this means digging into Nautilius. A significant task in itself. The people on the Nautilus list would probably help but they would need a significant time investment from an autofs development person. Any volunteers?

Although I am not really an autofs development person, I would really like this remedied, so I will volunteer. Where can I get started?


Forrest

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