On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 14:22 +0100, Matt Bernstein wrote: > At 14:09 +0100 Matt Bernstein wrote: > > > At 19:18 +0800 Ian Kent wrote: > > > >> Could you try this patch please. > > > > Thanks.. now my messages are slightly different (though it still fails). > > > > Aug 25 14:07:19 laurel automount[17416]: attempting to mount entry /homes/mb > > Aug 25 14:07:19 laurel automount[17416]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure > > :/home/cream/home71/mb on /homes/mb > > Aug 25 14:07:19 laurel automount[17416]: failed to mount /homes/mb > > Actually, this only happens when the target isn't already mounted. It does > perform a bind mount if there's something to bind to. Now what we need to > do (I think) is tickle the target in case it's another automount point, a > la our-bad-patch-for-autofs4.
Shouldn't need to do that. This my be due to changes in the lookup flags in the kernel over time. I haven't reviewed that for some time now. I'll see if I can duplicate your situation. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
