Thus spoke H. Peter Anvin on 24-Feb-99 :
>> Peter,
>>
>> I would like to come back to the shutdown of the automounter question.
>>
>> I remembered what the real problem in my case always was and still
>> is. It is not the umount of mounted directories but removal of
>> symbolic links when the disk is local.
>>
>> How do I remove a symbolic link by hand from an autofs managed moint point?
>> rm does not work. How do I tell the automounter to unlink symbolic links
>> locally?
>>
>
> You're right, it doesn't work, and it probably should. Let me see
> what I can do about it.
That would be really great! Making that work would have an impact how you can
setup your autofs in large cluster. There was a discussion about the lack of
sublinks of autofs which lets to may mounts of the same filesystem, one mount
for each user. People had to recompile the linux kernel with more allowed
mounts. Not a good solution IMOP.
My orginal solution was, to make /home a autofs which manages only symbolic
links to an /import automounter mount point. It worked find: each filesystem
was mounted only once. But since the symlink were not removable, I was screw
once a user has to be moved, or I did a typo at installing a new user.
Frithjof
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Frithjof Anders
Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
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