Re: autofs/smbfs - delayed mounting?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
28 Nov 1998 07:43:25 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981127135208.1608F-100000@fungus>
By author: Urban Widmark <urban@svenskatest.se>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> cola:~>d /smbfs/studio/Database/
> ls: /smbfs/studio/Database/: Input/output error
> cola:~>d /smbfs/studio/Database/
> total 8108
> drwxr-xr-x 1 urban root 512 Oct 28 10:20 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 1 urban root 512 Nov 27 12:26 ../
> ...
>
> cola:~>mount
> ...
> //DAVINCI/STUDIO on /smbfs/studio type smbfs (0)
>
> The first ls waits for something (the mounting I assume) to complete. But
> for some reason the process can continue before the mount has completed.
> Can anyone else see this?
> bug, feature or configuration error?
>

This implies smbmount returns before the mount is complete (does it
try to do it in the background?) This is bad.

-hpa

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