>> I'm experiencing a problem with autofs. It seems that when a process >> is inside an automounted nfs filesystem, if I restart the automount >> daemon the current working directory of the process is changed and a >> few leading directory are removed leading to a non-existent cwd. > > That's right. > > It's because, with older user space and kernel, the mount is detached > from the mount tree by a "umount -l" at restart when trying to cleanup > stale mounts. > > Note that this is a non-trivial problem and took a long time to fix. > > What autofs and kernel are you using?
Ian, I'm also getting this problem on 2.6.31 with autofs-5.0.4. Please, do you remember when the fix was committed? Is this related to some (new) configuration option? Thanks! Leonardo _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
