On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:30 +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 19:10 +0100, Lukas Kolbe wrote: > > On Sa, 2007-01-27 at 02:12 +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > > > > > > In syslog I get random messages like this: > > > > Jan 26 16:39:29 demon automount[16757]: mount(generic): warning: > > > > /homes/musr657 is already mounted > > > > Jan 26 16:39:42 demon automount[17062]: mount(generic): warning: > > > > /nfs4homes/musr946 is already mounted > > > > for exactly the mountpoints that belong to root afterwards. > > > > > > Your mtab locking is broken. > > > Get a mount(8) that's not broken and then re-evaluate. > > > > Thanks for the pointer. I found a discussion you were involved in in the > > util-linux-ng mailinglist at the beginning of january, is that the > > locking you talk about (see > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00005.html)? > > > > I'll have a look at it on monday and see if I can patch our mount and if > > it makes a difference! > > No and yes. > > This issue has come up fairly often over the last 3-5 years. > > What I expect when posting a comment like this is that the relevant > distribution maintainer speak up and justify that mount(8) in their > distribution has been patched to fix this issue. > > That of course doesn't mean that it isn't still broken but indicates > that the right people are aware of the problem, have attempted to fix > it, and will help out if needed. > > All distributions should have something included to fix this by now but > it seems that may not be the case. > > It may be worthwhile looking at > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/autofs-4.1.4-configureable-locking.patch. >
Having checked this to the extent that I can, as I'm not very familiar with Debian, it looks like the above patch has been included in Debian testing but mount(8) locking in util-linux is broken in spite of the "warnings" given "every time" this comes up. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
