[autofs] Question/request about host mapping

2011-04-07 Thread Michael Coffman
Hello, I am trying to use the -host map for global access to servers in my environment. I have noted on this list that after the first mount of a server via host mapping, the server is never again probed for mount points. This seems like a major flaw in the host map functionality. This is a

Re: [autofs] [PATCH] Sanity checks for brackets (escaped or otherwise) in server name

2011-04-07 Thread Ian Kent
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 14:43 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: When autofs is configured as follows: * -nodev,nosuid,intr,soft,retry=10,proto=tcp :/tmp1 One could make a mount request as follows: df /autom/tmp1/som\(efile and crash automount, since automount tries to parse the brackets

Re: [autofs] Question/request about host mapping

2011-04-07 Thread Ian Kent
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:52 -0600, Michael Coffman wrote: Hello, I am trying to use the -host map for global access to servers in my environment. I have noted on this list that after the first mount of a server via host mapping, the server is never again probed for mount points. This

[autofs] [ANNOUNCE] fedfs-utils for Linux

2011-04-07 Thread Chuck Lever
Announcing public availability of fedfs-utils for Linux RFC 5716 introduces the Federated File System (FedFS, for short). FedFS is an extensible standardized mechanism by which system administrators construct a coherent namespace across multiple file servers using file system referrals. The