Re: autofs behaviour on HUP signal : deleted mounts still honored ?

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On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 08:35 +0200, jbd@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:08:59 +0800, Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > When the mount is busy on re-load the automount stored cached map entry
> > must be left in place so that in can be expired. That's what causes it.
> 
> When you say that the "stored cached map entry must be left in place",
> you mean in the 
> direct map file or the automount internal state ? 

Internal state.
autofs uses a stored copy of map info quite a lot.

> 
> If I re-load the automount (after removing the corresponding line in
> the map) while the mount is busy
> and move away from this mount, the timeout expires and the unmount
> occurs although it is not here anymore
> in the map file.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't really get your answer :/
> 
> > Not really wanted behavior but it is what happens now.
> > I should be able to mark the cached map entry negative on re-load so it
> > doesn't trigger a mount while waiting to be cleaned up.
> 
> What do you mean by "waiting to be cleaned up" ? To be unmounted or
> this is pure
> internal stuff ? In my test (reloading the map while having a busy
> mount), after the timeout,
> the unmount happens (that's what I understand as "to be cleaned up"),
> but I can still mount it after.
> 
> Sorry to repeat myself, but I just want to be sure we're talking about
> the same behaviour.
> 
> > The --ghost has no meaning for direct mounts, it isn't needed.
> 
> Indeed !
> 
> Thank you for your answer !
> 
> Jean-Baptiste
> 


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