Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 03 Nov 1997 07:29:29 -0500 | | From | Bill Hawes <> | | Subject | Re: File locking problems? |
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Richard Gooch wrote: > > Hi, all. I've had persistant problems with filesystems not being > properly unmounted at shutdown. I've tracked it down to a corrupted > /etc/mtab. Further fiddling has shown that the corruption is most > likely to occur when I shut down the autofs-based automounter. I have > 13 automounter maps, so when a killall is done on the automounter > there is a brief flurry of activity. > I've had these problems with 2.0.3x as well as 2.1.61, although I've > been doing my testing on 2.1.61.
Hi Richard,
Have you considered doing unmounting based on /proc rather than /etc/mtab? It seems to me that /etc/mtab is outdated, and that unmounting should based on the kernel's view of what is currently mounted.
Regards, Bill
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