Thus spoke Michael Meissner on 23-Feb-99 :
> On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:02:01AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Okay, I'm planning to do outline the basic data structures of autofs
>> v4 over the next several days. Some features are already a given:
>>
>> * Multimounts/scaffolding (/net being a special case of this).
>> * Arbitrary mount point topology, without needing the
>> spawn-an-automounter hack.
>> * Mounting-process information passed to daemon.
>> * Most of the filesystem data will live in "ready-to-eat" kernel data
>> structures (inodes, dentries) as opposed to separate backing store.
>
> One thing that amd has that would be nice if autofs has is symlink mounts.
> If for instance, you have two systems, fred and barney. Fred exports
> /pebbles
> and /dino, while barney exports /bambam, you might want to have a centralized
> mount point for all disks:
>
> /mnt/pebbles
> /mnt/bambam
> /mnt/dino
>
> If you were on fred, /mnt/pebbles would be a symlink to /pebbles, /mnt/dino
That work already :)
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