I do believe your test case is not testing what the patch solves. The problem I was trying to solve was that after autofs mounted a location, hald would stat that mount on a regular basis, preventing the autofs auto-unmount timeouts from expiring and unmounting the mount.
A proper test would be: $ df | grep '/net/some.nfs.server/foo' (expected: nothing) $ ls -l /net/some.nfs.server/foo $ df | grep '/net/some.nfs.server/foo' (expected: mount info for /net/some.nfs.server/foo) $ sleep 120 (or whatever your autofs timeout is) $ df | grep '/net/some.nfs.server/foo' (expected: nothing) -- HAL stats nfs and autofs mounts, preventing autofs timeouts from working https://launchpad.net/bugs/55223 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs