reopen 27305 reassing 27305 kernel severity 27305 normal thanks Ehm, better reassigning to kernel. He's referring to AUTOFS_NEGATIVE_TIMEOUT probably. It's not evident to me if some sort of auto-adjustament is missing...
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:18:31PM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Package: autofs > Version: 3.9.99-4.0.0pre10-16 > Severity: normal > > > okay. when a floppy drive is accessed, and there happens not to be a > floppy in the drive, you get an error "directory does not exist". > > then you put a floppy _in_ the drive.... and access it .... and it > _still_ says "directory does not exist". > > 30 seconds _later_ is a different story: access is granted. > > > i found out what the problem is: the auto-timeout field in the autofs.h > > linux kernel header file is set to a ridiculously long time period > > of 60 (sixty) seconds. > > OK, so no autofs bug (a kernel bug if any); closing. :-) > > /* Steinar */ -- Francesco P. Lovergine