Don't hold your breath. This will go into 2.3.
-hpa
> Hi-
>
> I was wondering if there's a version of autofs available which offers
> support for multiple mounts. I saw this entery in autofs-3.1.x/TODO:
>
> autofs v4 TODO list
> -------------------
> .
> .
> * Support multimount entries. (Quite messy: can't unmount the
> tree as a unit, probably needs locking while constructing the tree,
> and needs scaffolding if no entry for /. Appears *very* difficult
> to do without threading!)
> .
> .
>
> We were forced to use amd because autofs offers no convenient way to
> handle our auto.master map which make use of the multimount feature
> like this:
>
> auto.master:
> /net/<server> auto.<server> -<options>
>
> auto.<server>:
> * <server>.<domain>:/nfs/<server>/&
>
> Right now, I'm forced to run an automount deamon for each entery in
> auto.master. <server> doesn't export /nfs/<server> itself, but just
> the disk partitions under /nfs/<server>. It would be difficult to
> change this.
>
> A multi-mount capable autofs would really save the day. Otherwise
> we'll have to keep using amd.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Fred
>
