On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 11:14 -0700, Stephen Biggs wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ian Kent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:42 AM > > To: Stephen Biggs > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [autofs] Automounter losing track of mounts... > > > > -- snip -- > > > > Perhaps. It could even be a bug in the mount userland > > software. But, > > > in any case, the automounter should handle this correctly and not > > > update its tables if the mount doesn't succeed for any reason. That > > > seems to be the real problem here. > > > > What tables? > > Keeping the mtab up to date in mounts' job not autofs. > > Yes, it is. I apologize for my vagueness. I was talking about the > autofs's internal lists (tables?) of mounts that it must create and > maintain. > > It looks like some sort of sequence where the first regular mount fails > due to this mtab issue. When 'mount -f' is invoked and succeeds, the O/S > mounts this directory but the automounter fails to update its lists to > keep this as mounted and also deletes the mount point directory > internally as well as on the autofs filesystem. > > So what we have is the O/S and NFS thinking this particular export is > mounted but the automounter doesn't, and there is no mount point because > the automounter deletes the directory and any subsequent expire or 'df' > fails. The least intrusive fix for this situation is 'umount -a'. > > This looks like a definite, albeit relatively minor, bug in the autofs > daemon. > > I actually misspoke above. The problem here is the exact opposite of > what I said above previously. The automount fails to update its > internal lists/tables to show a mounted directory even if the second > mount attempt with '-f' succeeds. It acts like it is in complete > failure mode and also deletes the mount point out from underneath the > mounted export.
Your jumping from a "this might be" to a "to solve this" without a definite "this is caused by". You can't do that and expect it to be resolved. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
