Why does autofs negative cache is not updated for included maps?
Issue
- while accessing shares configured in included maps, negative cache is not honoured.
# cat /etc/auto.master
/net -hosts
/test auto.direct
# cat /etc/auto.direct
+auto.include
# cat /etc/auto.include
datastore 10.65.209.204:/datastore
nfs 10.65.209.204:/nfs
- Testing a failed lookup.
# ls -l /test/no
# ls -l /test/no
- checking syslog
# less /var/log/messages
Jan 13 11:57:09 autofs automount[6063]: key "no" not found in map source(s).
Jan 13 11:57:09 autofs automount[6063]: key "no" not found in map source(s).
Jan 13 11:57:10 autofs automount[6063]: key "no" not found in map source(s).
Jan 13 11:57:10 autofs automount[6063]: key "no" not found in map source(s).
Jan 13 11:57:10 autofs automount[6063]: key "no" not found in map source(s).
Jan 13 11:57:10 autofs automount[6063]: key "no" not found in map source(s).
Jan 13 11:57:11 autofs automount[6063]: key "no" not found in map source(s).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
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