Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

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To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...>
Cc: Hua Zhong <hzhong@...>, 'Linux Kernel Mailing List' <linux-kernel@...>, 'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@...>, <akpm@...>
Date: Friday, August 31, 2007 - 3:50 am

> > It's not very conservative to suddenly change default behavior and break

Wrong(tm).

autofs AND mounting at the commandline just say:
mount.nfs: /mnt is already mounted or busy

Which has an actual information value of about 1%.

In my case i moved a nfs exported directory inside another nfs-exported 
directory month ago and placed a symlink where the direcotry was (on the 
server-side). It never acured to me that that was "wrong"(tm).

Now i can only mount one of the two mounts and the other just tells 
"busy".

After reading this i could fix my case easyly. I just erased the 
"deeper" mount and symlinked the directory from the other mount.

But YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG. Just getting a "Busy" 
lets you staying with Question-marks flying around you head!




Bis denn

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recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Hua Zhong, (Thu Aug 30, 5:07 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Frank van Maarseveen, (Fri Aug 31, 4:14 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Ian Kent, (Fri Aug 31, 5:05 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Thu Aug 30, 6:37 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Aug 30, 11:49 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 12:21 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Bill Davidsen, (Sat Sep 1, 8:58 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, David Howells, (Tue Sep 4, 3:54 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Ian Kent, (Wed Sep 5, 8:44 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Wed Sep 5, 12:26 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, David Howells, (Wed Sep 5, 11:37 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Wed Sep 5, 11:50 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Ian Kent, (Thu Sep 6, 1:23 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Bill Davidsen, (Wed Sep 5, 8:35 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, David Howells, (Wed Sep 5, 11:34 am)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Hua Zhong, (Fri Aug 31, 2:47 pm)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 3:13 pm)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Hua Zhong, (Fri Aug 31, 3:35 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 31, 1:01 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, David Howells, (Tue Sep 4, 4:35 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Sep 4, 5:04 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, David Howells, (Tue Sep 4, 4:02 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 3:03 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 12:44 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 31, 12:59 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Ian Kent, (Fri Aug 31, 1:38 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Martin Knoblauch, (Fri Aug 31, 4:54 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 1:04 am)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Hua Zhong, (Fri Aug 31, 1:24 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 31, 1:16 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Jakob Oestergaard, (Fri Aug 31, 3:40 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Frank van Maarseveen, (Fri Aug 31, 4:28 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 31, 4:07 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 8:11 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, David Howells, (Tue Sep 4, 3:51 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Frank van Maarseveen, (Fri Aug 31, 9:12 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 9:50 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Frank van Maarseveen, (Fri Aug 31, 10:42 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Jakob Oestergaard, (Fri Aug 31, 4:51 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 31, 12:43 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Jakob Oestergaard, (Mon Sep 3, 9:20 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Martin Knoblauch, (Mon Sep 3, 9:43 am)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Hua Zhong, (Thu Aug 30, 11:57 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Andrew Morton, (Thu Aug 30, 9:24 pm)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 12:33 am)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Hua Zhong, (Thu Aug 30, 6:47 pm)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Thu Aug 30, 7:22 pm)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Hua Zhong, (Thu Aug 30, 7:30 pm)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Thu Aug 30, 7:37 pm)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Hua Zhong, (Thu Aug 30, 7:44 pm)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 12:31 am)
Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Matthias Schniedermeyer, (Fri Aug 31, 3:50 am)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Ian Kent, (Fri Aug 31, 1:09 am)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 31, 12:38 am)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Trond Myklebust, (Fri Aug 31, 12:57 am)
RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression, Hua Zhong, (Fri Aug 31, 12:47 am)