H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I have been using for a very long time a setup where /home is an autofs > from a plain indirect NIS map, but my personal home directory > (/home/hpa) is simply a bind mount from /export/home/hpa. A > straightforward use of autofs. > > I just rebooted my system yesterday, however, and found that all the > directory entries in my home directory had gotten replaced with ghost > directories -- and even more confusingly, the date wasn't the current > date, but was back in 2008. > > The ghost directories were "sterile" in the sense that entering them > wouldn't show the proper contents of those directories. As a result, > massive failure. > > After suspecting filesystem corruption, and this, that and the other > thing, I found that this was only when viewing though autofs > (/home/hpa), and that the real filesystem (/export/home/hpa) was fully > intact. Somehow autofs had ended up ghosting pretty much my entire > directory, and doing so in some incorrect fashion. > > Replacing /home with a plain bind mount (no autofs) to /export/home > resolved the issue.
This failure sounds rather more spectacular than should result from a known problem we have with a recent init scripts change. I'll investigate. Have a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475002. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
