Hi All,

We have an SLES11 SP1 machine configured with autofs to mount iso images. When 
a linux guest accesses the machine the isofile is mounted, after 1 minute the 
isofile is umounted.

Today the machine is migrated to SLES11 SP3. The autofs configuration is moved 
into the new machine so I would expect the guest to behave the same. When a 
directory is accessed the isofile is mounted, but now the directory is not 
umounted after the timeout is expired. When enough iso files are mounted we run 
out of loop devices and cannot access any new iso files.

The timeout should be 60 seconds, but after 30 minutes we still see:

The /var/log/messages shows the mount of the isofiles:
Nov 19 10:56:00 nlzlx113 kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Nov 19 10:56:00 nlzlx113 kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Nov 19 10:58:07 nlzlx113 kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Nov 19 10:58:07 nlzlx113 kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Nov 19 10:58:07 nlzlx113 kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Nov 19 10:58:07 nlzlx113 kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A

/etc # df
…
/dev/loop0            2014164  2014164         0 100% 
/srv/sources/SLES/SLES11_SDK
/dev/loop1            3245946  3245946         0 100% 
/srv/sources/SLES/SLES11_3_DVD1
/dev/loop2            2140918  2140918         0 100% 
/srv/sources/SLES/SLES11_3_SDK

/etc # lsof | grep sources
automount 3416       root    9u     FIFO              94,17      0t0      61176 
/var/run/autofs.fifo-srv-sources-SLES
automount 3416       root   10r      DIR               0,18        0      17404 
/srv/sources/SLES
automount 3416       root   15u     FIFO              94,17      0t0      61177 
/var/run/autofs.fifo-srv-sources-RedHat
automount 3416       root   16r      DIR               0,19        0      17418 
/srv/sources/RedHat
automount 3416       root   21u     FIFO              94,17      0t0      61179 
/var/run/autofs.fifo-srv-sources-various
automount 3416       root   22r      DIR               0,20        0      17422 
/srv/sources/various

Why would the directory not be unmounted? How can this be solved?



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