On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Matt Bernstein wrote:

> At 09:29 +0800 Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Matt Bernstein wrote:
> > > +/* 'what' may itself be on an automounted file system so we need to
> > > access it */
> > > +/* to ensure it gets mounted before calling wait_for_lock() inorder to
> > > avoid a*/
> > > +/* long delay */
> > > +               (void)access(what,F_OK);
> > 
> > That can lead to corruption of /etc/mtab.
> > That's why the lock was introduced.
> > 
> > In v5 the locking can be disabled as most people have updated mount(8) these
> > days.
> 
> Thanks--is the locking disabled, or do we need to patch the source? (I haven't
> looked at it yet.)
> 
> > Someone else has reported that bind mounts aren't working with v5.
> > It would be good to resolve this but I need more info.
> > A debug log would be best.
> 
> I set DEFAULT_LOGGING="debug" in /etc/sysconfig/autofs (this is
> autofs-5.0.1-0.rc1.16.x86_64 in FC6test), and I got this in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Aug 25 07:31:29 laurel automount[17274]: attempting to mount entry /homes/mb
> Aug 25 07:31:29 laurel automount[17274]: mount_mount: mount(nfs): no hosts
> available

Mmmm ... I shouldn't be defaulting to NFS for a ":" escaped mount.

Ian

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