Hello Peter,
> > At my current customer they've got a large Solaris 2.6 environment which
> > uses automount. One of the things I've noticed in that environment is
> > that local automounts get mounted through NFS.
> No it doesn't. It uses something call lofs.
Very true.
> > I'm wondering if this is also possible with linux. I got automount
> > working
> > on my system (it's great with floppies & cdroms) but I'd like the home
> > directories on my system (which are local) to be mounted through
> > automount.
> > Is there a way to prevent autofs from making a symlink and to just mount it
> > through NFS??
> Change the source code.
Time (for me) to learn how to program ;-)
what are the disadvantages of using a lofs instead of symlinking? (other
than
the need of support for lofs in the kernel).
Thanks + keep up the good work!!!
Stefan van der Eijk