On Dec 19, 2007 10:56 PM, Tim Bunnell <bunnell AT asel.udel DOT edu> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I hope this is not a FAQ (I could not find it there in any case). We
> have set up amanda (2.5.1p1) running on Debian 3.1 Linux to backup
> automounted directories from a SnapServer 410. The configuration appears
> to work OK with DLEs of the form:
>
> our.net.udel.edu        /vol/dir        our-gnutar
>
> Where /vol is our automount point and dir is the share exported by the
> SnapServer.
>
> However, when amcheck or the dumper runs, we see one or more automount
> errors indicating that things like /vol/rdir cannot be mounted for each
> automounted DLE. We guess the 'r' in front of the 'dir' might come from
> something like attempting to mount /vol/dir first as a raw device???
>
> Does anyone know (a) if that is really the cause of the problem and/or
> (b) how to make is stop? We fear it is just a matter of time before
> someone decides to create a real share with a name like "rdir" that
> conflicts with an existing "dir" share.

That is a *strange* error!  Raw devices are handled as a prefix
(RDEV_PREFIX), and are only used in getfsent.  I would actually
suspect some kind of weirdness from the automounter in this case.
What are the errors?

Dustin

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