> It's not operations that cause the counter to be updated.
> It isn't possible to update the counter based on specific operations.
> It isn't possible to update the counter for all mount types based upon
> access only, such as listing a directory.
>
> The counter is updated during each expire check and is updated if the
> file system covering (for direct or offset mounts), or within (indirect
> mounts) the autofs file system has an elevated reference count. So, if
> there are open files or process working directories, or a path lookup is
> in progress at the time of the check, that is sufficient for the mount
> to be considered busy and the counter updated.

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Ian, this really helps.

Leonardo

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