On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 22:31 -0700, Kamil Kisiel wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 22:15 -0700, Kamil Kisiel wrote: > > > I'm using autofs to mount some NFS shares, but occasionally some of > > > the machines on the network get their syslog filling up with errors > > > like this: > > > > Version info, distribution and autofs? > > > > > > > > > > > > Mar 19 21:11:05 <hostname> automount[6762]: expire_indirect: fstat > > > failed: Bad file descriptor > > > Mar 19 21:12:20 <hostname> automount[6762]: expire_indirect: fstat > > > failed: Bad file descriptor > > > Mar 19 21:13:35 <hostname> automount[6762]: expire_indirect: fstat > > > failed: Bad file descriptor > > > > > > Any suggestions as to why this might be, or steps to take to debug? > > > > > > I'm using kernel 2.6.24 for x86_64 on an AMD 64 and autofs version > 5.0.3. The distribution is Gentoo Linux. This behavior is not isolated > to one machine, all of the machines running the same system image > exhibit the same symptoms every now and then.
I've changed that message to debug logging in the latest revision. I had a look around but couldn't find anything and so I didn't track it down. So we can get expire requests for stale mounts now and again and, as far as I can see, it's not otherwise a problem. Looks like the Gentoo package is close to up to date wrt. 5.0.3. The patches on kernel.org: autofs-5.0.3-expire-works-too-hard-update.patch autofs-5.0.3-expire-works-too-hard-update-2.patch together change the log message from error to debug (the later reverts a hunk of the first that was incorrect) since I still want to know how often it happens when debugging. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
