The amq -u does not remove the symlinks.
We are using nfs maps with symlinks (like this):
juser host!=homehost;rhost:=homehost;rfs:=/wd1e/export/home \
host==homehost;fs:=/wd1e/export/home;type:=link
As I understand it, amd consists of two different logical parts:
1) A server that hooks file system access, looks up the mountpoint,
and mounts it. (in /amd/...)
2) A userland NFS server that serves out a file system full of symlinks to the mountpoints managed by the above process (in /home).
It seems that part 1 is working, such that if I move a home directory, and then go crawling around in /amd/homehost/wd1e/export/home/..., or ask amq, the correct information will be picked up as expected, and the new filesystem will be mounted. The problem is that part 2 never seems to get the message. The galling thing is that it is _so_ close, the automounter mounts the new file system just fine, so it unmounts /amd/oldhost/wd1e/export/home/juser and correctly mounts the new tree at /amd/homehost/wd1e/export/home/juser, but the symlink in /home still (until amd is restarted) points to /amd/oldhost/wd1e/export/home/juser which of course no longer exists...
I hope that clears things up. That being said, it is only minimally disruptive to:
sudo /etc/rc.d/amd stop
sudo /etc/rc.d/amd start
but it just doesn't feel right to have to do that.
-lars
At 05:11 PM 2/8/2008, Christos Zoulas wrote:
On Feb 8, 4:03pm, lfriend%mcci.com@localhost (Lars Friend) wrote: -- Subject: Re: Odd behavior from amd | At 03:53 PM 2/8/2008, Christos Zoulas wrote: | | (snip) | | > >Does anybody have any suggestions? | > | >Use 'amq -u' to unmount the offending partition before 'amq -f'. | | I just tried this, and the symlink is still wrong. However if I ask | amq, it says all is well. | | Thanks thought, | What kind of maps are you using? Did you verify that after amq -u the symlink was gone? christos