On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 08:26 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 12:02 +0200, Cyril B. wrote: > > > > However, I've also had those "deadlocks" happen with several different > > NFS servers at the same time (this was not the case with the traces I > > sent in my previous email). If one NFS server was unmountable, should > > automount be blocked when trying to mount others? And don't forget it's not different servers that affect locking. Most of the locking that can cause blocking it is at directory level so it should be at or below the autofs mount point directories. > > How is autofs configured. > > If --disable-mount-locking is not used then any mount can block all other > mounts, if it is used then there can be mtab corruption if still using a text > based mtab. > > I always use --disable-mount-locking and nowadays the mtab is usually a > symlink > into the proc file system so corruption isn't a problem. > > Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in
