Hello, We are currently using an older Fedora (Core 3) and are needing to update to a later Fedora (Core 4 minimum). During testing, we noticed that the autofs utils for FC4 had a race condition, so we upgraded the kernel (2.6.17) and autofs utilities (autofs-5.0-rc3 RPM). I have noticed through observation and perusing the list that bg is no longer honored as a passed mount option for NFS through autofs. A problem that has caused us is that if server is down or under heavy load, it won't respond to the rpc_ping in time, and so the automounter drops the attempt to mount. This causes a cascade effect in our cluster, ie., jobs that would have help up due to a backgrounded mount now fall through, and it is possible to have "thousands" of jobs fall through our batch scheduler all because the first set of jobs failed due to a long mount or a server down temporarily. Is there some way to increase the rpc_ping? Is there some way to trick bg to be passed through and short circuit the rpc_ping? We are not going to be doing sub-mounts or multi-homed mounts.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Norman Weathers _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
