Re: autofs 5 not recognizing manual umounts properly

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 18:41 +0200, Timo Wendt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have just installed FC6 to do some tests with autofs 5 as I need to
> use direct mounts. The new version works really great. The only thing
> I figured out so far that does not work fine is, when I umount one of
> the automounted fs manually.
> If I then try to list the contents of that directory it says, that it
> is empty. As soon as I try to create a file in that directory, it
> fails and seems to realize, that the directory should be mounted and
> remounts it, without creating the file though.
> 
> 
> Now I have 2 questions:
> 
> 
> 1. Why is it not remounting the FS when trying an ls on it?
> 
> 
> 2. Why is it not creating the file after remounting the FS instead of
> failing first and then doing the mount?

I'd need a debug log to see what's going on and more information about
the automount map and the map type you've observed this with.

I'm likely to end up saying that manual umounting of automounted shares
is a bad thing and doing so may lead to unpredictable behavior. I may be
able to improve matters but it is unlikely to be totally reliable.

So I recommend leaving the automounts alone.

Ian