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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Server IP address change screws up active mounts
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:15:28 -0700
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To: "Murata, Dennis W (SAIC)" <muratadw@bp.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, David Meleedy <david.meleedy@analog.com>, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>

Murata, Dennis W (SAIC) wrote:
> We experienced similar problems using autofs-3.x with both RedHat(7.3,
> 8.0, 2.1, 9.0) and Slackware(9.0).  This seems to be fixed with
> autofs-4.x.  We have used 4.0.0-pre10 for a couple of years without
> problem and are now trying 4.1.2.
> The problems we were seeing dealt with and automounted nfs server not
> responding, the mount would hang, autofs would not timeout and would
> hang, only a hard reset would reboot the computer.
> 

It wouldn't have anything to do with autofs, though.  Rather, it's an 
NFS problem.

	-hpa