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From: Michael Blandford <mlblandf@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Subject: Re: autofs not mounting directories
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:04:39 -0700
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To: Robert Au <rau@lsil.com>
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Robert Au wrote:

>I think we are seeing something similar here; sporadically, listing a file
>with ls will fail until a process changes working directory to that file's
>directory. I'd like to help out in the testing. We are seeing this problem
>with Red Hat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10), autofs 4.1.0, and kernel module
>autofs4-2.4-module-20031201.
>  
>
I could replicate the problem by cd'ing into a directory ( that caused 
it to get automounted ) and try to touch a file.  It would fail.  cd out 
of the directory and back in and it would now work.  I only see this 
problem on 4.1.x.

Michael