Re: automount never umount

[Farkas Levente <lfarkas@bppiac.hu>]

Jeff Moyer wrote:
> ==> Regarding Re: [autofs] automount never umount; Farkas Levente <lfarkas@bppiac.hu> adds:
> 
> lfarkas> Ian Kent wrote:
> 
>>>That wasn't what I had in mind.
>>>
>>>I was thinking more along the lines of the definition of what constitues
>>>"use". For example any access, such as a directory listing, will update
>>>the "last used" value whereas if I change the definition of "last used"
>>>to "currently in use" then to be busy there would have to be an open
>>>file or a process working directory set. This may solve the GUI scanning
>>>problem we see but wouldn't solve immediate remounting that occurs due
>>>to the scanning as well.
> 
> 
> lfarkas> that would be useful and may be solve our problem. without it the
> lfarkas> current implementation is not usable to umount. think about just
> lfarkas> the daily process like slocate database update, tripwire and may
> lfarkas> be others.
> 
> Things that run infrequently are not at fault, here.  I'd really like to
> know precisely what is going on, in your case.
> 
> Ian, I think it would be easy enough to instrument the autofs4 module.
> Simple things, like figuring out which process is triggerring the lookup.

ps axu can help you?

> We can either log it, or just keep a ring buffer.

i run gnome and nothing special, even if only one terminal and netscape 
is running the autofs never umount.


> I don't think I'll have time to put together any code this week, but may
> next week.

i'll happy to test it.

ps. i try smbfs, cifs, but even nfs is never umount.

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   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"