Followup to: <54snu9ef6x.fsf@intech9.enhanced.com>
By author: Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Greetings! Sounds like it may be similar to a problem I had a while
> back. I submitted a patch to the list, which was accepted in the
> Debian potato package, but AFAIK hpa hasn't yet had time to look at.
> In any case, nested automounts work fine for me now with this patch.
>
> I had another issue which I haven't chased down yet: symlinks on a
> particular box aren't being expired, and this reduces to lstat failing
> to show the link and reporting "no such file". As this seemed to
> happen only on one box so far, I haven't finished chasing this
> one down.
>
> Take care,
>
> Frank van Maarseveen <fvm@tasking.nl> writes:
>
> > autofs: expiration is blocked after a tree mount. Even one
> > tree mount in /net seems to block other single mounts
> > in /net
> >
> > Tested by modprobing the module in question.
> > In userland I use autofs-4.0.0-pre1, a bit old maybe but I think that
> > it should not have effect on the expiration. A failing expiration is
> > not visible in /var/log/messages: no message appears in that case.
> >
Tree mounts, as in using the tree mount facility of autofs 4.0, or
nested mounts? Note that I pretty much don't take bug reports for
autofs 4 -- if you want to send me a bug report for autofs 3 please
run the autofs 3 kernel and an autofs 3 daemon.
-hpa
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