On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 08:48 -0500, Jim Summers wrote: > Ian Kent wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:39 -0500, Jim Summers wrote: > >> Jeff Moyer wrote: > >>> Jeff Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> > >>>> Jim Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>> > >>>>> Hello All, > >>>>> > >>>>> Just hit a hiccup with autofs5. Everything was going along fine and > >>>>> then had > >>>>> a user call and say they could not get their home on a machine. I did > >>>>> some > >>>>> quick checking and some mounts were working and others not. below is a > >>>>> bit of > >>>>> the debug log and some other info. the user, gerardo is the one who > >>>>> called > >>>>> me. entries in the debug log for him are the same as the tmac user. > >>>>> in that > >>>>> it get his ldap info tries to mount but then says it is already mounted > >>>>> and > >>>>> then fails???? > >>>>> > >>>>> client machine is FC6 hand compiled autofs version: > >>>>> autofs-5.0.1-20 > >>>>> autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-20 > >>>>> with a patch from Ian. > >>>> What is the kernel version on the client? > >> 2.6.22.1-32.fc6 > >> > >>> I'm guessing that you have 2.6.22.1-13.fc6 or later installed. These > >>> kernels include the "nosharecache" patch for NFS. This patch can > >>> cause some mounts to fail with -EBUSY. You can revert the > >>> nosharecache patch to get the old behaviour back. > >> is this accomplished with boot option similar to 'noacpi' or something > >> like that? > > > > It's a mount option. > > Check your nfs-utils. I believe that revision 14 and above will > > understand the "nosharecache" option. > > > > Add this as a global option by changing: > > > > #OPTIONS="" > > > > to > > > > OPTIONS="-O nosharecache" > > > > in /etc/sysconfig/autofs, near the bottom and let us know if this helps. > > > > seems to have resolved the problem. i added the nosharecache option and > restarted the daemon. then was able to su to the affected and unaffected > accounts and get the mounts. > > the really cool thing was, i was able to do, "/etc/init.d/autofs restart" > while a couple of users were logged in and it actually restarted. I was not > able to do that with autofs4, it would pretty much hang.
Yes, people are starting to notice that. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
