Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:55:27 -0400
To: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system updating routinely umounts "manual" nfs mounts
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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 02:49:54PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> This has been happening here for several months or more in devel
> distro versions Factory and IIRC Cauldron and Rawhide.
> 
> Maybe others' manual nfs mounts are more "manual" than mine are.
> Mine are actually a group of noauto fstab entries I enable via
> script when I want them active. All of my installations are on real
> x86 hardware, some 32 and others 64 bit. I'm guessing what's going
> on is systemd updates syncing /proc/mounts to fstab, oblivious to
> the manual post-init mount processes having taken place, but this
> certainly could be nfs evolutionary fallout or something else I know
> nothing about. Is this happening to others? Expected? My search of
> nfs component @bugzilla.kernel.org produced nothing on apparent
> point.

The kernel certainly isn't going to unmount things for you like this, so
this is a question for the distro or systemd maintainers or something.

--b.