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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: rm hangs on symlinks to down mount points
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:23:14 -0800
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To: Paul Raines <raines@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
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Paul Raines wrote:
> 
> Yes, so I guess it is mostly rm's fault.  I have already complained to
> the fileutils package writers about df which will do a stat on every
> mount even if you pass df a specific mount point.  So on my central
> system which often has over 50 automounts going at once with one of
> the servers almost always offline, df never works.  quota never works
> either.
> 
> It would be nice if one could configure a timeout in autofs for
> mounting though separate from something like 'timeo' in the nfs options.
 >

s/autofs/mount(8)/.

Not autofs' job.

> I am often getting automount processes that are hung and don't die
> with a simple kill.  I can "kill -9" them but that leaves things in 
> a bad state usually (though sometimes I will just hand edit /etc/mtab
> so I can get something done).

That's why they don't die with a simple kill.

	-hpa