On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, [UTF-8] scathew wrote: > We're seeing the same thing here. If I use a 2.6.20 kernel for instance, > I have no problems. If I use the latest released FC6 kernel > (2.6.22.4-45) it gets the "is already mounted or busy". > > To note, this isn't an issue with "automount" (autofs), but rather an > issue with NFS itself. You can't manually mount either (the original > example is vanilla NFS too incidentally). Automount is just an > abstraction on top (which yes, is not surprisingly broken too). This is bug 250597 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250597 backported to FC6. The fix is to update nfs-utils, then add the nosharecache option to the nfs mount configuration, eg. by adding -Onosharecache to the OPTIONS line in /etc/sysconfig/autofs . Michael Young