==> Regarding Re: [autofs] automounted filesystems being unmounted and mounted every minute; "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
brian> On Tue, 2006-17-10 at 00:32 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: >> 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? brian> Don't think so: brian> $ sudo ls -l /proc/*/cwd | grep share [nothing] >> 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. brian> Heh. >> The best way to find out what is causing this is to enable debug logging brian> As in "automount -d"? >> on a test machine and check what pid is causing mount activity. brian> I tried this (automount -d) but am not seeing any more information brian> than -v provides. Take a look at http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer for documentation on how to gather debug information from the automounter. Basically, you need to log daemon.* somewhere. -Jeff _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
