On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Lever, Charles wrote:

> Customer of ours describes this problem:
> 
>   >    We have several netapp boxes that we use as filers and all 
>   >    of them at this site, with the exception of this one box, would
> unmount
>   >    for the linux workstation after the autmount timeout period.
> With the 
>   >    implementation of autofs-4.1.3-28 this particular netapp box
> would not
>   >    only NOT unmount (/net mounts) after timeouts, and would not
> release
>   >    its ports, it would begin to actively take more ports (without
> any
>   >    other mounts of this netapp box taking place).  Within 24 hours a
> linux
>   >    box can be hung by the port-taking activity of this netapp box
> mounted
>   >    via /net.
> 
> They are running on RH 8.0, kernel 2.4.20-20.8smp.  Problem did not
> occur with autofs-4.1.2.
> 
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?

This sounds like the mount order problem we had recently.
Also against a Filer I think.

We can confirm this is the same problem by collecting a log with 
the --debug option set.

I can forward a patch but Jeff may already have included it in his rpm.

Lets confirm it first.

Jeff?

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