On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > 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? >
Could be an interesting time. I started by subscribing to the Nautilus list. I'll forward you the mails I have and put together as much as I know about this. Short is that Nautilus probably needs to be changed. We are most likey to succeed if we can put together at least a proof of concept path, after all we aren't Nautilus developers. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
