From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Halbert Subject: Re: ENOENT on first reference to an automounted file Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:00:57 -0400 Message-ID: <470A7059.8030106@everyzing.com> References: <4706A926.8090503@everyzing.com> <1191646125.3060.7.camel@raven.themaw.net> <47081453.7000709@everyzing.com> <470A5C6B.9000104@everyzing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org To: Jeff Moyer Cc: ikent@redhat.com, autofs@kernel.org Jeff Moyer wrote: > I was able to reproduce it. It turns out that I had a kernel > installed that had a fix for the following bug: > Bugzilla Bug 248126: autofs problem with symbolic links > > When I moved to the exact kernel you were running, I hit the problem. > So, it's a known issue, and it had better be addressed in the next > update (kernel 2.6.9-61.EL). > Thanks! You saved me from a module rebuild, which I have not done in quite a few years. I had searched the existing bugs and seen 248126, but it did not seem to me that I could have had a simultaneous expire, since we have such long timeouts on the automounts (usually --timeout=86400). But I must have misunderstood what "expire" means in this case. Also, from 248126 and the bug it references, 174821, it appeared that these patches were already incorporated into my kernel 2.6.9-55.0.9-smp (248126 comment #24 mentions 55.0.7, for instance). But apparently not! Is this bug non-existent in the latest updated RHEL5.0? I am trying to think of a workaround until 2.6.9-61 comes out. We have a tried cron job to provoke the automount more often than its timeout, but I am not sure that would solve the problem. Dan