[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>>> I made the mistake of umount -f /net/x4500/export/mail, even when autofs 
>>> was disabled, and now all I get is I/O Errors.
>>>
>>> Is it always this sensitive?
>> "umount -f" is a power tool with no guard.  If you had local
>> apps using the filesystem, they would have seen I/O errors
>> as well.  The automounter is not making things worse here,
>> so calling it "sensitive" doesn't sound right to me.
> 
> 
> The biggest issue, though, here is that the automounter's /net
> mounts for each host are read only once when the mountpoint is
> first established.  It's only ever refreshed when all the host's
> filesystems are unmounted.

Yes, and what's worse is that that can't be done manually in
a reasonable way - the unmounts just fail unless they're
driven by the unmount thread.  I'd love to get this fixed
sometime ...

Rob T
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