Abstract

Documentation

This document describes some standard configuration maps for autofs that are convenient for everyday use. It is a cook book for building your own configuration files.

Package

Together with this documentation comes an installation fileset, which provides some useful default maps to ...

... access all devices via drive letters
... access hotplug devices (USB sticks and USB disks)
... access all NFS directories
... build and access a floppy image graveyard
... build a filesystem-based hierarchical ISO9660-Media Archive (usually DVD & CDROM)
It is an out-of-the-box autofs support, that does not require further configuration steps after installation. All you need to know are the roots and the heuristic of the supported file system trees. All you need to do, is to type the pathnames where the automounter is needed. It is intended for all distributions that do have no or a minimalistic /etc/auto.master.

Side Effects

A known side effect is, that some directory trees can only be used by the automounter.

Latest News

Autofs4 does not unmount after timeout

Package autofs

Version 4.1.3-4

Bug Report #279898

Effect Unused File Systems are not unmounted

Reason Signal Race Condition

Package	autofs
Version	4.1.3-4
Bug Report	#279898
Effect	Unused File Systems are not unmounted
Reason	Signal Race Condition

Old patch:
@@ -919,8 +919,8 @@ static int st_expire(void)
                 return 1;
 
         case EXP_STARTED:
-                ap.state = ST_EXPIRE;
                 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &ready_sigs, NULL);
+                ap.state = ST_EXPIRE;
                 return 0;
         }
         return 1;

New patch:
@@ -904,6 +904,7 @@
                 return 1;
 
         case EXP_STARTED:
+                sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &lock_sigs, NULL);
                 ap.state = ST_EXPIRE;
                 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &ready_sigs, NULL);
                 return 0;