On 16-Jul-99 Roy Hulen Stogner wrote:
>
> Why does autofs remove subdirectories after they expire and are
> unmounted? For example, I have autofs handling the /nfs directory on
> a laptop, mounting a number of subdirectories /nfs/u3, /nfs/d4, etc.
> on demand. However, the directories only exist while they are being
> used:
That would make the mere act of an ls -l /net cause them all to be remounted.
That is certainly not universally desireable, but I guess some people might
want it as an option. It also conflicts with doing tree-mounts to some
extent[1]. It doesn't affect normal autofs, but if you have a tree of
directories making up, do you let them all persist, or just the top-level ones?
J
1: Plug- see http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/autofs for matches to do Sun-style
tree-automounts.
