[Quoting me]
>> I vaguely recall problems with kernel-level automounters in general really
>> messing things up on a hanging mount, and that multithreading within the
>> automounter was the answer. How does Linux autofs handle this?
HPA> I have no idea what you are talking about here.
I think the problem was basically this:
I cd to a directory which forces a mount from a remote machine, which is
hung or slow. autofs goes off to mount it.
Another user opens a file which forces another mount. The automounter,
however, is blocked serving the former request.
Both requests sit until the first times out. Then the second request is
served.
HPA> [...] my daemon forks a process to do any dirty (= potentially slow)
HPA> work on a mount point, avoiding that problem.
Then it shouldn't be a problem.
Thanks,
- J<