[CentOS] Automounter issue

[James Pearson]

David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com wrote:
> Anyone seen this before?
> 
> I have a number of file systems nfs mounted onto clients running
> various versions of CentOS (and Upstream), although mostly they are
> v5.x flavors. =20
> 
> The server is a Network Appliance filer.
> 
> When the build process for this team runs, it sometimes dies because
> it can't find files in the automounter tree; if the engineer checks,
> he sometimes sees a problem, and sometimes doesn't; for example:
> 
> [pdbuild at build-c5u1: ~] ll /tools/vault/kernels
> ls: /tools/vault/kernels: No such file or directory
> [pdbuild at build-c5u1: ~] ll /tools/vault/kernels
> total 152K
> drwxr-xr-x  4 pdbuild everyone 4.0K Aug  7  2007 2.4.21-40.EL.CUSTOM.01smp/
> ...
> drwxr-xr-x  7 pdbuild everyone 4.0K Oct 16  2007 2.6.18-xen/
> [pdbuild at build-c5u1: ~] df  /tools/vault/kernels
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> nas02:/vol/tools/vault
>                       779G  655G  124G  85% /tools/vault
> 
> Now I've seen this before where some processes don't wait for the automounter
> to do its thing before continuing; they just report "fail" and move on
> to the failure handling.

What sort of map is being used for this mount point? i.e. what is the 
contents of your /etc/auto.master ?

James Pearson