Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 219434
autofs failed to mount using wildkey and replicated configuration
Last modified: 2007-11-16 20:14:46 EST
Description of problem: automount fails to mount using a certain automount map. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autofs-4.1.3-186 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure automount map as following #auto.master /words auto.words #auto.words * host1:/a/& host1:/b/& host2:/c/& host2:/d/& 2. say words are classified into seperate location in an alphabetical order 3. access "/words/bat" or "/words/dog" Actual results: mount fails Expected results: Additional info: i have looked into source code. when some path on a host is failed to mount, any trial to mount different path on the same host is ignored. that, however, should not happen in my configuration. on solaris and hp-ux system, i captured nfs packets and they try every location until they get successful mount.
Given that this is a deviation from the behaviour under Solaris, this is certainly a bug. However, I do not believe this meets the RHEL 3.9 release criteria. As such, the issue will not be addressed. I will open a bugzilla against RHEL 4 for this issue.