[Sunhelp] Automounting

[Melinda Taylor]

Wow thats great! Looks like an upgrade to Sol 8 may be in order....


On Thu, 4 May 2000, James Lockwood wrote:

> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Will Lowe wrote:
> 
> > The only reliable solution I've found is to reboot the client.  There
> > really ought to be some better way, but even if you kill the automount
> > daemon and try to unmount by hand, the system generally refuses to allow
> > you to do that, complaining that the filesystem is in use.
> 
> You'll appreciate this then:
> 
> Maintenance Commands                                    mount(1M)
> 
> NAME
>      mount, umount - mount or unmount  file  systems  and  remote
>      resources
> 
> ...
> 
>      -f    Forcibly unmount a file system.
> 
>            Without this option, umount does not allow a file sys-
>            tem  to  be  unmounted if a file on the file system is
>            busy. Using this option can cause data loss  for  open
>            files; programs which access files after the file sys-
>            tem has been unmounted will get an error (EIO).
> 
> Unfortunately you have to go to Solaris 8 to get this, many other Unices
> have had a similar feature for some time (AIX comes to mind).  I'm glad
> Sun finally put it in, though.
> 
> -James
> 
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