>> I made the mistake of umount -f /net/x4500/export/mail, even when autofs 
>> was disabled, and now all I get is I/O Errors.
>> 
>> Is it always this sensitive?
>
>"umount -f" is a power tool with no guard.  If you had local
>apps using the filesystem, they would have seen I/O errors
>as well.  The automounter is not making things worse here,
>so calling it "sensitive" doesn't sound right to me.


The biggest issue, though, here is that the automounter's /net
mounts for each host are read only once when the mountpoint is
first established.  It's only ever refreshed when all the host's
filesystems are unmounted.

Casper

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