Re: excluding some pattern to prevent useless mount request

[Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>]

Jeff Moyer wrote:
> ==> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:40:54 +0100, Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr> said:
> 
> Guillaume> While looking in server's log, I found many such mount requests:
> Guillaume> Nov 26 04:23:19 yquem rpc.mountd: refused mount request from
> Guillaume> chouchen.inria.fr for /home/yquem/.hidden (/): no export entry
> Guillaume> ...
> Guillaume> Nov 26 04:22:33 yquem rpc.mountd: refused mount request from
> Guillaume> medoc.inria.fr for /home/yquem/.directory (/): no export entry
> 
> Guillaume> I guess they are caused by graphical file manager trying to find
> Guillaume> metadata directories when displaying mount points. Is there a way to
> Guillaume> prevent them ?
> 
> No, there is not a way to prevent them.  The basic problem is that the
> requests could be valid;  how is the automounter to know which
> directory lookups to ignore? 
If it could be configured locally, the automounter would know :)

> haldaemon has been responsible for some
> problems in the past, but its authors chose to include special cases
> for automount-managed directories.  This is not the most ideal
> solution, I guess, but it is the most attractive from the autofs point
> of view.
> 
> Can you find out which applications are causing these lookups and file
> bugs in their respective bug trackers?
I don't feel very confident trying to convince konqueror developer they
have to always test first if the directory they are going to probe is
automountable... This seems to be both a exception, and something more
easily implementable in a centralized way in automounter.