I frequently end up with a broken mtab. This results in a message like:
mount(nfs): warning: /home/stueken is already mounted

I'm using a SuSE-10.1 x86_64-smp system with a 2.6.16.21-0.25-smp kernel.
After I read about new patches to solve some mtab locking problems
I upgraded from autofs-4.1.4-23 to autofs-4.1.4-37, but the mtab
corruption still occurs.

Seems the problem became even worse since a mount request sometimes
takes about 5 seconds (due to some LDAP configuration problems) while
a bunch of other mount requests are coming in.
In addition this is an SMP system.

Should I consider to update my kernel, too?

Unfortunately I could not convince my sysads to do so, as they are
afraid of even more problems with newer kernels...

I noticed the upcoming autofs5. Should I wait for it?

thanks for advice,

- Dieter. 

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