On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 09:30 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Autofs 5.0.1 seems to be doing an unmount/mount of my home dir > filesystems every minute or so. Verbose output from autofs shows: > > Oct 16 09:27:23 jenny automount[18632]: expiring path /autohome/share > Oct 16 09:27:23 jenny automount[18632]: unmounting dir = /autohome/share > Oct 16 09:27:23 jenny automount[18632]: expired /autohome/share > Oct 16 09:27:23 jenny automount[18632]: expiring path /autohome/brian > Oct 16 09:27:23 jenny automount[18632]: unmounting dir = /autohome/brian > Oct 16 09:27:23 jenny automount[18632]: expired /autohome/brian > Oct 16 09:27:24 jenny automount[18632]: attempting to mount entry > /autohome/share > Oct 16 09:27:24 jenny automount[18632]: mount(nfs): mounted linux:/home/share > on /autohome/share > Oct 16 09:27:24 jenny automount[18632]: mounted /autohome/share > Oct 16 09:27:24 jenny automount[18632]: mount still busy /autohome > > Why is it in the same window of operation expiring, unmounting and > remounting filesystems?
Is the directory busy? That is is it the pwd of some process or have open files? If it's not then it will be umounted when it times out, after 1 minute in this case. Then if some smart application scans directory trees when it sees mount or umount activity then it will be mounted again. We've seen this with older versions of hald. The best way to find out what is causing this is to enable debug logging on a test machine and check what pid is causing mount activity. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
