On 03/12/2011 05:32 PM, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 15:59 -0800, Nye Liu wrote:
>> I have been relying on the behavior that
>>
>> foo host:/export/foo
>>
>> uses 'bind' if host is localhost, and 'nfs' otherwise...
>>
>> i.e. if i am on the machine "host", /export/foo is mounted on /mnt/foo using
>> bind, but if i am not on "host", host:/export/foo is mounted on /mnt/foo
>> using nfs.
>>
>> But the latest version of autofs no longer does that.
>
> What latest version?
>
I believe this is related to a change in the network layer in Linux,
which breaks the localhost test not just for autofs but for almost any
application which uses the same, portable technique for determining the
localness of a host address.
-hpa
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