[Sunhelp] Automounting

[Melinda Taylor]

Hi, 

Thanks for your input, but I think you misunderstood what I was saying.

With automounted I understand that they are mounted when they are
needed and then unmounted when they are not. But if the server
which was sharing the automounted disk crashes (due to a fault totally
unrelated to autmounting) is there some way to make the other server,
which had a disk autmounted at the time of the other servers crash,
to just unmount the disk and not freak out and freeze also?

Ta :)

Melinda

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jarrett Carver wrote:

> 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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