Fedora 9 nfs and autofs instable?

[Bill Davidsen]

David Jansen wrote:
> Since switching to fedora 9 (fresh install, no upgrade), both nfs and
> autofs seem to crash on an almost daily basis. 
> nfs mountd is just gone, no errors in the logs. autofs is even more
> enigmatic: the daemon is still running, but nothing gets mounted untill
> I restart the service. And here also, nothing is mentioned in the logs.
> 
> So, when I noticed this, I have switched SELinux off, but the results
> are still the same, this morning both services were again not working.
> 
> The thing I suspect is my rsync backup script, which runs at night and
> makes heavy use of nfs mounted directories.
> 
> has anyone else seen such crashes, and does anyone know a solution or a
> way to learn more about the problem?
> 
I hasve not seen any indications of problems in that area, but I do 
backups over ssh. I do have a lot of heavily used filesystems mounted 
and used, and a fair bunch of ISO images exported, and I haven't had an 
issue of any kind.

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