[Lxc-users] automount in the container

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 09/24/2010 12:31 PM, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote:
> Some more experiments:
>
> The last lines of an strace look like this:
>
> root at cc2,~: strace ls -l /net/fs-v1
> [...]
> open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26048, ...}) = 0
> mmap(NULL, 26048, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x7f1273115000
> close(3)                                = 0
> futex(0x7f12728d9f60, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
> lstat("/net/fs-v1",
>
> I don't understand these internals, but maybe it makes sense for some of you.
>
> With '/etc/init.d/autofs stop' I cannot stop the service, but when I kill the
> automount process with signal -9 and start it again with '/etc/init.d/autofs
> start' -- then it suddenly works.
> I can cd into /net/fs-v1 and have all directories available.
>
> It's reproducable after a reboot.
> Strange, isn't it?
>    

It seems the patchset 
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/3/20/68572/thread 
was not taken upstream.
A quick look at the code, make me think the pids are not virtualized and 
that should mess up autofs4.