Le 24/05/2011 08:32, giggzounet a écrit :
> 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!

it works out of the box!

Thx a lot

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