Le 24/05/2011 05:23, Ian Kent a écrit :
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 09:10 +0200, giggzounet wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using autofs for years and on different configurations. It works
>> great! so thx for your great work.
>>
>> But I have a little question/problem:
>> We have a cluster (with CentOS 5.5). It's a little cluster, so the /home
>> "is" on the master. And this /home is exported to the nodes. I have
>> installed autofs in order to automount this /home when a user wants to
>> use his /home.
>>
>> So at the moment the configuration is simple:
>> cat auto.master
>> /home   /etc/auto.home
>>
>> cat auto.home
>> *      nfs_oscar:/home/&
>>
>>
>> So when a user comes autofs mounts only the /home for the user.
>>
>> So at the moment it works. but I find it not optimal, because when 2
>> users try to connect from a node I get 2 mounts.
>>
>> I would like to get this behaviour:
>> when a user try to connect to his /home, autofs mount all the export
>> /home. It is possible ?
> 
> It might be possible to come up with a method to mount all the keys in a
> indirect map on first access but that sounds like it would be more
> difficult than it's worth.
> 
> Do you really need to mount these separately?
> 
> Could you use a direct mount map instead?
> You could do this by using the following:
> 
> in the master map (possibly /etc/auto.master):
> /-    /etc/auto.direct.homes
> 
> and /etc/auto.direct.homes could contain:
> /home oscar:/home
> 
> This way there is only one mount not many and it will always make all
> home directories available on first access.
> 
> Ian

thx a lot! i will try this!

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