On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Lever, Charles wrote:

> hi all-
> 
> i'm still learning about the Linux automounter, but we have an issue
> that seems to come up a lot for our customers using Linux, it's
> automounter, and NetApp filers doing volume snapmirror (a file system
> replication mechanism).
> 
> at the end of a replication event, the destination file system goes
> offline for 3-4 seconds while the new version replaces it.  the filer
> used to return EACCES during this period, but we've changed it to simply
> ignore all RPC requests for that file system until the new version is
> online, as this seems to be more client-friendly behavior.
> 
> so now, during that time period, an automounter request to mount that
> file system will fail with "RPC: timed out" rather than getting EACCES.
> is there any way we can tell the automounter to wait longer or
> retransmit another few times?
> 

autofs version?
kernel version?
patched/not patched?
if patched which revision?

Have you got any log output?
If you have a recent autofs version you can use --debug to get gobbs of 
output.

Ian

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