When using LDAP (and probably other network resources) to store master map, the network has to be available at autofs daemon start. As Linux distributions boot time is currently diminushing (hotplug replaced by udev, various parallelisation effort), I see various race conditions occuring: the network service finishes, but the actual network interface is still in initialisation state, leading to autofs start failure.
The primary problem comes from network service implementation, and should probably get fixed there, right. However, I also think than having a configurable network timeout directly in autofs (aka: wait at least 10 second before considering the server is down) may also help in other scenarios. For instance, when you start various machine simultaneously (for instance, after a general power down), and your server takes longer to boot than your workstation. With autofs 4, I implemented this in service script. Now than everything is handled by autoumout daemon, this should get implemented there I think. -- Guillaume Rousse Projet Estime, INRIA Domaine de Voluceau Rocquencourt - B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex - France _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
