[Sunhelp] Automounting

[Jarrett Carver]

Automounter is supposed to free up the mounts when they are not being used 
and "re-mount" them when they are needed. That is the whole point to 
automounting, so you don't waste system resources on keeping disks mounted 
that are'nt being used.

It sounds to me like maybe an application that is running on the system is 
requiring a file on one of the automounted disks. When nothing uses the 
automounted partition it is "un-mounted" till it is next required (see 
above), when the application goes to use this file on the automounted 
partition it expects it to be there, when it is'nt it causes a fault.

I have seen this occur a while back and don't recall what app or many 
details, but the main idea was that we automounted a partition that should 
have been mounted.


----Original Message Follows----
From: Melinda Taylor <melinda at phys.unsw.edu.au>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [Sunhelp] Automounting
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:33:53 +1000 (EST)


Hello,

I have a couple of servers which run the automounting
facility to share the data disks between the systems.

All the servers are totally independent as far as OS
and apps go. So I am wondering, as the shared disks
are not critical why do all my servers go down if one
stops responding.

Is there some switch in the autmounter that says
'if the server isn't there, don't worry just keep on
doing what you are doing'

I presume the problem arises as some disks are mounted
when the other server goes down but surely there
must be someway to tell it just to forget it if it
can't connect to the server.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

Melinda


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