On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, David Meleedy wrote: > > Mike, > I just recompiled my kernel with your xprt-sharing.patch. > Although this did fix the port error problems, it did not fix > the automounter problem. So I think your patch should be incorporated > into Redhat Enterprise 3 (2.4 kernel) because it appears to work. > > I think the problem is that the automounter just cannot unmount > the /net/aflac directory, and ends up trying to remount it instead, > here are the log files after the port patch that Mike gave me: > (this is during the reboot after cd'ing to /net/aflac/vol/vol2) > > Jan 12 19:23:36 codered automount[5396]: can't shutdown: filesystem /net > still > busy > Jan 12 19:23:38 codered autofs: automount -USR2 succeeded > Jan 12 19:23:41 codered automount[5396]: can't shutdown: filesystem /net > still > busy > ... those lines keep repeating until .... > > Jan 12 19:24:08 codered automount[16092]: >> mount table full > Jan 12 19:24:08 codered automount[16092]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure > aflac:/vol/vol3/cad_archive on /net/aflac/vol/vol3/cad_archive > Jan 12 19:24:08 codered automount[16092]: >> mount table full > Jan 12 19:24:08 codered automount[16092]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure > aflac:/vol/vol3/design on /net/aflac/vol/vol3/design > ... those lines repeart for each subdirectory of the volumes ...
Could I have the full log of this please. >From automount start to destruction. > > Jan 12 19:24:09 codered autofs: automount shutdown failed Does RHEL3 have the more unnamed patch applied? > > As you can see, it keeps trying to unmount /net, and eventually > fills up the mount table because it instead remounts it. Before, > when the port issue was a problem, it wouldn't get far enough to > fill the mount table, but now it can (thanks Mike!) Yes, I know that bit of code. I've always been suspicious of trying to cover up a failure by trying to go back the way you came but I left it like that as I didn't have a better idea for how to handle the situation. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
