I install an external disk on my sun solaris 8
this went fine and I was able to access all filesystem on the disk. the new disk is mounted on /local

then 6 hours later

files under /local/files was 1 byte in size

at the same time I received the following

error message in /var/adm/messages

automountd[7070]: [ID 155600 daemon.error] Mount of /local/files on /local/files would result in deadlock, aborted

the funny thing is the that /local/files is mount
in vfstab and not automount.

the only thing the uses automountd is the home directory automatically to mount home directory from nfs server.

last command shows that I was the only one logged
in at the time.

can you help? please