> > 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.
This I'd rather solve by Solaris-style pseudomounts, again due to the
namespace issue (it may not be an issue for you, but it is a cause of
frequent complaints.) Solaris allows you to specify a root for the
kernel to mount, and the kernel will internally maintain an NFS mount
for multiple users, exposed only at a higher level. Probably doesn't
solve the #superblocks issue, though, but that's better handled by
allocating superblocks dynamically anyway.
I tend to believe klugy solutions just make the problem worse by
reducing the pressure to fix the real problem...
-hpa
