KB Article #67889

UNIX and automounted filesystems

Problem

* Administrator's Guide advises against installing the Interchange home directory on an automounted filesystem in UNIX


Resolution

-- Automounted filesystems in UNIX can unmount the fileystem under Interchange if there is a long period of no file activity
-- When file activity returns, the filesystem remounts with different inodes, which offends all the open file descriptions in Interchange
-- Although the automounter should not behave this way, we have seen it happen; therefore, the warning applies