[ale] invisible mounting points on RHEL 5.1

[Jeff Lightner]

I'm confused by this.  You must have added the "/mnt/m1" as it is NOT a
stock part of RHEL5.

 

Are you sure this isn't something you've configured in /etc/fstab or in
automounter?  I've seen some very strange behavior when attempting to
manually do things with filesystems put under automounter control.   

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Jerry Yu
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 4:21 PM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] invisible mounting points on RHEL 5.1

 

On a stock RHEL 5.1 server, an ext3 fs image (i1) is mounted as loopback
at /mnt/m1. /mnt/m1 is exported as NFS share to be used by a RHEL 5.1
client.

Not sure since when, on the NFS server, 

*	one can not see m1 when ls /mnt anymore.   Meanwhile,
*	'cd /mnt/m1' and 'ls /mnt/m1' and  file creation under /mnt/m1
all work just fine under /mnt/m1.
*	mkdir /mnt/m1 fails saying '/mnt/m1 is present'
*	/proc/mounts still have /mnt/m1 listed as mounted loopback.
*	umounting /mnt/m1 & mounting it back works just fine.  still
cannot see 'm1' under /mnt.
*	/mnt/m1 is under constant use by the NFS clients, so 'rm -rf' or
'umount' of /mnt/m1 from the server actually fails.
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