Thus spoke Brian Vicente on 23-Feb-99 :
> Let me try to convince you on the direct mount:
> I need to mount all the directories under /usr1/data.
> If I could have a /- in the auto.master pointed to say auto.data
> /- auto.data
> then I could automount this one directory with:
> data machine:/usr1/data
> and be done with it.
> Now I have to put the following in the auto.master
> /data auto.data
> and then in the auto.data I put
> dir1 machine:/usr/data/dir1
> dir2 machine:/usr/data/dir2
> .
Sorry, I do not see the problem. Maybe I do misunderstand, what you want. But I
had the same problem, to mount a tree of directories from a machine, without
the user guessing + plus the mechnanis should work for any host whithout
changing the automounter maps. Here is my solution within the existing autofs.
1) I reorganized all my nfs servers to have mount points like
/hostname/data1
/hostname/data2
2) I created an automounter moint point /imports
and a map auto.imports
* &:/&
That was all. A simple universal map, whcih needs no change, if you buy a new
machine. We make local temp space for calcuation intensive programs availible
that way to all hosts of the cluster.
cd /imports/hostname will mount the whole tree of the other machine and
thanks to how LINUX handels exports, I even can dynamicaly mount and
unmount directories on the server, which are propagated to the clients.
Frithjof
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Frithjof Anders
Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
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