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