automount weirdness, OSF/1 v3.0

From: <judith_at_npac.syr.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 95 13:18:58 EST

Prior to upgrading to osf/1 v3.0 , we had problems with automount sometimes
not mounting certain areas.

We have nodes 1-7, which hard mount /usr/local from node 8.
These nodes 1-8 then automount a number of remote directories from a single
        remote host's partition. An example of the auto.direct on nodes 1-8 is:

        /usr/local/src/dir1 -rw,intr remote_node:/export/home/R4D/dir1
        /usr/local/src/dir2 -rw,intr remote_node:/export/home/R4D/dir2
                               .
                               .
       /usr/local/src/dir14 -rw,intr remote_node:/export/home/R4D/dir14

Nodes 1-8 also automounts other remote directories, which always come up when
access is requested, as specified in auto.home. However, the above-mentioned
set of directories never come up after a reboot, when requested, unless you
kill the automounter and restart it.

Any insights, or ways to debug this problem?

Additionally, since the osf/1 v3.0 upgrade, when the automounter refuses to
mount these certain directories, it complains in the following manner and hangs
your process when you try to access them (or any other directories):
        
        NFS2 server node_you_are_on not responding still trying

Why should the node you are sitting on, which exports nothing automounted or
otherwise (node 8 is the only one that exports anything) complain that it
itself is not responding??

Thanks in advance for any ideas, solutions, or directions to go in!!!





Judith Reed
judith_at_npac.syr.edu
systems_at_npac.syr.edu
Received on Tue Feb 07 1995 - 13:20:30 NZDT

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