> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Kent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:38 PM > To: Rigler, Stephen C. > Cc: Jeff Moyer; autofs mailing list > Subject: RE: [autofs] [ANNOUNCE] autofs 5.0.0 beta1 > > > Another nice thing to see would be the "-null" option in > auto.master. > > We have machines running clustered filesystems that are also > > exported via NFS from one or two meta-data servers. The machines > > that see the filesystems locally should not automount the fileystems > > and the "-null" would allow us to exclude them. > > It should understand "-null" but the question is whether it works > correctly and how it should work. Give a try and let me know > how it goes. > > What would you have in your map in this case? > > Ian
"-null" seems to be working fine. In my case, my /etc/auto.master has "+yp:auto.master" and then "/somepath -null" to exclude an indirect mount or "/some/path -null" to exclude a direct mount. This is the inverse of the Solaris and Irix boxes we handle where the "+auto.master" is the last line in the local file. I have not tried it with an actual filesystem mounted at the mountpoint I'm excluding. The only inconsistency I've noticed if I remove the "-null" from an indirect mount I need to restart automount (reload doesn't seem to pick it back up). "Reload" does work when I remove the "-null" from a direct mount. -Steve _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
