Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is the point I'm trying to make. > I'm able to reproduce this with exports that don't have "nohide". > The mkdir used to return EEXIST, possibly before getting to the EACCES > test. It appears to be a change in semantic behavior and I can't see > where it is coming from. autofs expects an EEXIST but not an EACCES and > so doesn't perform the mount. I could ignore the EACCES but that would > be cheating. Here's something you can try: Look in fs/nfs/dir.c. Find nfs_lookup(). In there, find the following lines: /* If we're doing an exclusive create, optimize away the lookup */ if (nfs_is_exclusive_create(dir, nd)) goto no_entry; Comment that bit out and see what the effect it. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html