From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Subject: Re: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount on 2 way SMP
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:08:58 -0700
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To: Ion Badulescu <lists@news.cs.columbia.edu>
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Ion Badulescu wrote:
> 
> I don't know if it's the same issue, but I've seen it many many times 
> while testing amd's autofs functionality. It occurs when a non-empty 
> autofs filesystem is unmounted, e.g. if it has some leftover 
> subdirectories from previous mounts. Therefore I'd say it's quite 
> clearly an autofs issue, at least in my case.

Do you have a case that can deterministically reproduce the issue ? 

> Do you see it when shutting down the automounter, or in other cases as 
> well?

Everytime I've seen it, it's during an unmount by /usr/sbin/automount after the mount has expired. It's usually coupled with a temporarily unreachable NFS server.

	-Arun



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