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