Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes...
>
> On 21-Jun-99 Rick Richardson wrote:
> > I don't think thats the problem. Using the configuration above,
> > "ls /net/machine" mounts all the exported filesystems on "machine",
> > even with autofs. So if "machine" has "/" and "/home", then both
> > of those filesystems get mounted under /net/machine (although,
> > oddly, /net/machine/home won't appear in the mount table.
> >
> > Autofs just seems to have a problem mounting the Network Appliance
> > this way. I *think* it is because the Network Appliance doesn't have
> > an exported "/" filesystem, just /xxx, /yyy, /zzz.
>
> If that's the case you might want to try my patches at
> http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/autofs. Among other things, they can arrange to
> create missing intermediate directories leading up to a mountpoint.
Thanks for the tip, Jeremy.
Are these patches going to go into any future kernels? I don't
want to have a bunch of users relying on features that are only
available by patches and custom kernels.
-Rick
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