On Sat, 17 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? > > the specific cases we're seeing right now are with RHEL AS 2.1, updates > 2 and 3. jeff moyer can provide you with the exact patch set used in > that distribution.
I expect that's autofs version 3 and the stock version 3 kernel module. > > > Have you got any log output? > > i thought maybe there was an easy configuration option that could tune > the automounter's mount behavior, so i don't have any log output. but > i'll see what we can get. i assume you mean /var/log/messages; let me > know if there is a log specific to the automounter that i should be > looking for. It will log errors to syslog. I don't track changes to v3. Hopefully we can get Peters attention? But check the logs anyway. Jeff, can you help with versions? Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
