hall and autofs

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:38:10PM -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 21:51 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > I look after autofs and I've had a couple of reports about file systems
> > being immediately remounted after they have expired and stopping the HAL
> > daemon stops it from happening. Apparently it has started recently,
> > Fedora Core 5. It contains version 0.5.7.
> > 
> > Anyone able to direct me to the right place in the code base or offer
> > any suggestion as to how to resolve this problem?

> gnome-volume-manager (or similar tools under KDE and other desktops)
> handle the policy for mounting on the desktop.  For gnome there is a
> program under System|Preferences|Removable Drives and Media where users
> can click off the mount options.  Alternatively I bet autofs can set
> flags in HAL which disallow the drive from being auto-mounted.  Ask on
> the hal list (subscribe at http://lists.freedesktop.org). 

The problem may not be that we mount the shares, more that we stat() the
related mountpoints which causes autofs to remount the share cause, it's
accessed. We may need to add logic to HAL to skip such mountpoints if
possible. Ian, what is the content of /proc/mounts?

Thanks,
Kay