On Thu, 13 May 2004, David Meleedy wrote:

> 
> One question I had for you guys happened to us when we were moving
> our subnets to an internal 10. net.  We were using autofs version 3
> on redhat 8, and I haven't had a chance to test this with version 4
> yet, but the problem might still exist.
> 
> If the redhat client using automounter had mounted a directory from some
> server (so the mount was active), and then we changed the IP address of 
> the server, the automounter would hang on that mount forever after.  In fact
> we couldn't even do "init 6", we had to do "reboot -f" to get
> the client working again.  To compare, with our Solaris machines,
> we didn't have this problem.  The new IP address was discovered and
> the mount continued to work.

You must post this to the nfs list.

> 
> So I'm not really sure if this is an automount issue, or a mount command issue,
> but I figured you guys would be the right ones to ask.  I definitely
> think this issue should be fixed, it's not that uncommon to move
> servers to new IP addresses.

Sounds like an issue with NFS or mount.

It sounds a bit strange though. It's been my impression that these types 
of behaviour have improved greatly in later kernel versions.

What are the versions of:

kernel
util-linux
autofs

Ian


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