hi firthjof
> >> > 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 :)
> >
> > yes... I use it.... to do /Net/All_hosts aka /n/All_hosts etc...
> >
> > cd /Net ; ln -s /.autofs/RemoteHost_or_Dir1 .
> > cd /Net ; ln -s /.autofs/RemoteHost_or_Dir2 .
> > cd /Net ; ln -s / hostname
> >
> But there is a problem with that concept: you have make your symbolic links by
> hand to your /.autofs.
yes... okay...
I suppose we can make a simple script that creates the proper /etc/auto.misc
and /etc/auto.master and create the above symlinks...
I can get the list of symlinks from what files ???
> Thats, what we do not want, we meaning people who run thousends of
> cooperative machines or people like me, who do physics for living and are not
> paid as sys adm. I would like to build my cluster with simple means almost "out
> of the box" as another poster demanded.
yup...to me, it means just run a bunch of setup scripts..
have fun
alvin
