On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 18:05 +0000, jack snodgrass wrote: > Ian Kent <raven <at> themaw.net> writes: > > > > > Yep. That will certainly mount /myth/store, as it should, but I don't > > know why the other mounts are being mounted. > > > > I don't have any other similar reports and the autofs version you are > > using has been current for quite a while now. > > > > As for the kernel, the autofs4 stuff in it has also been there for quite > > a while. > > > > I'll have a go at trying to reproduce it as soon as I get some time. > > Sorry I can't be more helpful. > > > > Ian > > > > > I did some testing on a FC5 vmware image I had. The mounts only occur > for real ( or virtual ) drives and not just file-system mount points or > NFS mount points. if I have :/dev/hdX in a auto.map file, nfs tries to > mount all of those devices. I am pretty sure that this is some sort > of NFS 'feature'. > > I've moved my stuff over to samba ( -tcifs ) and it seems like samba > is going to allow me to have :/dev/hdX references in my auto.map files > and not mount them unless I use them.
That sounds like it's just avoiding what sounds like a fairly serious bug. It would be better if we could get to the bottom of it. Could you get me a dedug log please. See http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer to verify you have syslog setup to capture the output. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
