Re: [CFT] Autofs.

Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2014, at 07:19 , Edward Tomasz Napierała
> <trasz_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > At the link below you will find a patch that adds the new
> > automounter.
> > The patch is against yesterdays 11.0-CURRENT.
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs-head-20140729.diff
> 
> I also just submitted
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192379 to allow -o
> vers= mount_nfs compatibility, which makes it easier to integrate
> with Linux/OSX/Solaris LDAP setups and mount options from LDAP.
> 
> 
> > Testing is welcome.  Please start with manual pages, eg.
> > automount(8).
> 
> 
> I found one case now doing the aforementioned where when the initial
> mount_nfs fails (e.g., for invalid options), then a later mount did
> not succeed either, with the correct mount options;  I did try to
> run automount -u in between tries, as well as service automountd
> restart, but that did not make a change;  given I was short on time,
> a reboot of my desktop made this go away.   Is there some “negative
> caching” in the kernel module possibly that will not retry the mount
> for another time or something—as in if I were more patient and
> waited 5 minutes, would it maybe just have worked again?
> 
If I recall it correctly, it retries a mount attempt that fails after
something like 1min (which seems like a long time when you are waiting
for it;-). I think that was done so that clients don't flood a rebooting
server with mount attempts, but that code was written long, long ago.

rick
ps: I just reviewed and thanked Bjoern for the -vers= patch.

> Bjoern
> 
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> Bjoern A. Zeeb             "Come on. Learn, goddamn it.", WarGames,
> 1983
> 
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