Dear all,
the autofs manpages says:
"If an indirect map is modified then the change will become
effective immediately. If an indirect map uses the browse option, the
master map contains direct mount maps or the auto.master map is modified
then the autofs service control reload action must be rerun to activate
the changes."
However this doesn't seem true when using multi-maps:
In /etc/auto.master:
/base/data /etc/auto.data
In /etc/auto.data:
# section 1
#
p1 -fstype=nfs,vers=3,sec=sys srv:/export/p1
p2 -fstype=nfs,vers=3,sec=sys srv:/export/p2
# section 2
#
others -fstype=nfs,vers=3,sec=sys \
/p3 srv:/export/p2 \
/p4 srv:/export/p4
When adding an entry
p5 -fstype=nfs,vers=3,sec=sys srv:/export/p5
in section 1, I can immediately change into /base/data/p2 and it is
mounted. All well. But when I add an entry
/p5 srv:/export/p5
to section 2, then this new entry is not accessible as
/base/data/others/p5 even after a `systemctl reload autofs`. autofs has
to be completely restarted. Unfortunately we've had many issues
(crashes) with clusterjobs accessing NFS shares during autofs restarts.
That's why we'd like to avoid complete autofs restart whenever possible.
Can you confirm that multi-maps are not updated by autofs reloads and/or
is there a way to achieve this?
We are running autofs-5.0.7-70.el7_4.1.x86_64 on CentOS 7.4.1708 and we
cannot update to newer CentOS releases due to other restrictions
(special hardware/drivers).
Cheers
frank
