On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 17:03 +0100, Dieter Stüken wrote:
> > I frequently end up with a broken mtab. This results in a message like:
> > mount(nfs): warning: /home/stueken is already mounted
Sorry, I don't have anything useful to add on the mtab corruption issue.
We do a ton of NFS automounting and don't see this issue.
> > I'm using a SuSE-10.1 x86_64-smp system with a 2.6.16.21-0.25-smp kernel.
> > I upgraded from autofs-4.1.4-23 to autofs-4.1.4-37, but the mtab
>
> I don't know what this means, I don't use SuSE.
The trailing numbers differentiate variants of the "same" software version,
e.g. security patches. SuSE has a policy of backporting patches to old
versions, if feasible, in contrast to Debian, which I think would send
out the latest version including the latest patch. The idea is to minimize
feature changes except at distro version transitions.
> Does your system use mount.nfs from nfs-utils?
> There is an mtab locking error I spotted in nfs-utils recently.
SuSE 10.1 uses /bin/mount from util-linux-2.12r-35 which does NFS
intrinsically, and not mount.nfs from nfs-utils-1.0.7, which is installed
but minus mount.nfs.
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