Bug 145533
| Summary: | Autofs will not mount on a top level folder using direct maps | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dean Plant <dean.plant> |
| Component: | autofs | Assignee: | Ian Kent <ikent> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | arequipeno, dduffey, edgar.hoch, jmoyer, ken, mattdm, thomas.duffy.99 |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-12-19 08:32:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Please include your auto.master as well. At first glance, this looks like a bug to me. auto.master contains /net /etc/auto.net /home yp:auto_home Then where is the direct mount? Direct mounts are of the form: /- /etc/auto.direct then auto.direct would have your absolute path: /foo server:/export/foo Sorry, I guess you meant the auto.master on the NIS server? If so, auto.master # Master map for automounter for SunOS 5 machines # /net -hosts -nosuid /- auto_direct -rw,intr,suid auto_direct # Admin /admin -ro,intr,suid valiant.roke.co.uk:/space/admin /test/admin -ro,intr,suid valiant.roke.co.uk:/space/admin Yes, thank you! *** Bug 121959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** isn't it normal to dup the newer bug to the older one instead of the other way around? Yes, but this is against a more current release, so far as I can tell. Sorry for not adding you to the CC. This bug appears to be present in RHEL 4 update 3 as well. This is something that will be fixed in autofs version 5. That is currently under development and will likely be released to rawhide at some point. I wouldn't expect this to be backported to FC-3 or FC-4. Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you! I have tested it on FC5 x86_64 with all updates until today. But it does not work as expected. I have created a /etc/auto.direct file with the line /usr/local-test -rw,hard,intr,bg remotehost:/remotepath and in /etc/auto.master is a line /- /etc/auto.direct When I restart autofs (service autofs restart) then the following processes will be created: root 6856 1 0 14:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 --ghost /- file /etc/auto.direct root 6874 6856 0 14:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/automount --submount --ghost --timeout=60 /usr file /etc/auto.direct ls -l /usr shows only total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 17 14:11 local-test and in /usr/local-test/ there is the remote directory mounted, but all other directories in /usr are hidden! This behaviour is not the one expected! A direct link should only mount the mount point (in this case: /usr/local-test) and not make the parent directory an autofs directory that hides all other files previously in this directory! On Solaris this configuration mounts only /usr/local-test and all other directories and files in /usr are still available! I don't know if this behaviour should be filed to a new bug, but because it is direct related to direct autofs maps I think we can leave it in this bug report? Otherwise feel free to create a know bug report (or tell it to me...). As I can't change the version to fc5 please could the owner or a maintainer do it? With this behaviour autofs direct maps are still unuseable for me. Thanks in advance! (In reply to comment #12) > I have tested it on FC5 x86_64 with all updates until today. > But it does not work as expected. Yes that's correct. There is only limited support for direct mounts in autofs v4 and this is not going to change. You have a couple of choices. First, you could install version 5 of autofs from Rawhide. Since you have a fully upto date FC5 you will have a kernel version 2.6.17 at least which is the minimum kernel required. It has almost all the changes needed to support v5 direct mounts. Provided you don't have more complicated maps than you describe this will function as you expect. Second, if you need some of the more advanced features you could use the Rawhide version and add the additional kernel patches. Third, you could use an FC6 test release but that's probably not the best choice unless you have the time and patience to file bug reports. If you can't do any of these then I will close this as NOTABUG. Ian (In reply to comment #13) > (In reply to comment #12) > > I have tested it on FC5 x86_64 with all updates until today. > > But it does not work as expected. > > Yes that's correct. > There is only limited support for direct mounts in autofs > v4 and this is not going to change. > > You have a couple of choices. > > First, you could install version 5 of autofs from Rawhide. > Since you have a fully upto date FC5 you will have a kernel > version 2.6.17 at least which is the minimum kernel required. > It has almost all the changes needed to support v5 direct mounts. > Provided you don't have more complicated maps than you describe > this will function as you expect. > > Second, if you need some of the more advanced features you could > use the Rawhide version and add the additional kernel patches. > > Third, you could use an FC6 test release but that's probably not > the best choice unless you have the time and patience to file > bug reports. > > If you can't do any of these then I will close this as NOTABUG. No response in three months and I can't do anything about this anyway. Closing "NOTABUG". |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I am testing autofs on FC3 with direct mounts read from Solaris NIS maps. I have enabled direct mounts by editing DISABLE_DIRECT=1 in /etc/sysconfig/autofs. On the NIS server I have test direct mount of: /admin -ro amachine:/export/admin Which does not work correctly in FC3 but work's fine in Solaris, /var/log/messages show's cache_ghost: entry in yp:auto_direct not valid map format, key /admin When I add the below direct mount, it works as expected. /test/admin -ro amachine:/export/admin Is this just a feature of the Linux autofs not fully emulating Sun's autofs or is this a bug? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autofs-4.1.3-47 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. As per description 2. 3. Additional info: