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 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
