Followup to: <38B12B0E.48D53954@dacotec.net>
By author: Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@dacotec.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Just out of courisity I tryed out the autofs and noticed a
> serious BUG within it.
>
> My setup gives is that I have the two
> mount points defined:
>
> /misc/cd - internal atapi cd-rom device
> /misc/zip - external zip drive.
>
> All the drivers are fully modularised.
>
> The problem is that doing:
>
> eject /misc/zip
>
> is resulting in a completly hossed module system.
> The scsi top layer stays thereafter in uninitilized state
> and the disk doesn't get ejected at all.
> The eject command results in an error message about
> some illegal/unsupported ioctrl.
>
Which, of course, it is: eject operates on a device, not on a
filesystem.
This sounds like a SCSI layer problem; it has nothing to do with
autofs.
-hpa
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