On 16-Mar-99 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> There are additional problems, as well:
>
> - autofs v3 will allow processes to access the tree after only the
> root has been accessed.
I'm not sure I follow you. You can't name parts of the tree without going
through the root.
> - I think you might find that adding directory trees to autofs v3 is a
> bit more challenging than you thought, due to the fact that in autofs
> v3, all directories but the root are synthetic empty directories.
That's not too hard to fix. It just requires that autofs has more general
purpose directories. I'm currently adding an inode hash table to keep track of
all autofs inodes, and moving the directory hash into each directory inode.
This cleans up handling of symlinks too. I'm still looking at the best way of
dealing with expiration.
J
