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.
J
