Re: More autofs problems

[Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de>]

Ian Kent wrote:

> btw, I discovered a mistake in one of the patches included in the
> previous patch. I'll post an updated patch later today. Sorry for the
> trouble.
> 

No problem, it has not killed the node and it's just one node right now.

>> (1) Shall I try the nfs list at sourceforge or is that list only full of
>> spam?
> 
> Yep, for sure, the NFS maintainer in present on that list, hopefully he
> will be able to help.
> 
OK

>> Which I need to umount manually now, remove the empty directories under
>> /atlas/node before I could restart autofs.
> 
> Check if /etc/mtab is out of sync with /proc/mounts when you see this.
> 

yes it is

> If so then your mount(8) mtab locking is broken otherwise it's something
> else and, rather than try and dig up v4 patches, I'd recommend v5. I
> haven't been able to completely resolve this in v5 yet but it is much
> better so you will need to see how it goes.

OK, thanks!

Carsten

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