Re: invalid stat result with autofs 5

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

Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> See http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26244
This seems to be fixed with 5.0.1rc3.

However, it is impossible to create new directories directly under mount
point, which is quite problematic for creating new users home directories:
[root@etoile ldapscripts]# mkdir /home/dir/foo
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/dir/foo': No such file or directory.

From /var/log/messages
Feb  7 11:37:04 etoile automount[25264]: rmdir_path: lstat of foo failed.

From /proc/mounts
ou=auto.home.dir,ou=autofs,dc=msr-inria,dc=inria,dc=fr /home/dir autofs
rw,fd=5,pgrp=25264,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0
ou=auto.home.mi,ou=autofs,dc=msr-inria,dc=inria,dc=fr /home/mi autofs
rw,fd=10,pgrp=25264,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0

no-root-squash NFS option is set, so it is not a write permission
problem. Moreover, the problem doesn't exist if /home/dir is manually
mounted.