Paul Jakma wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > That's because that isn't autofs' job -- it either belongs in NFS or in
> > mount(8).
> 
> ah.. ok. so autofs will at least not barf on:
> 
> *       -async,usrquota server1:/exports/home,server2:/misc/exports/home
> 

That one it probagbly will (although it will do
server1,server2:/exports/home OK).

> 
> but i don't understand why this should be the job of mount rather
> than autofs. Could you expand on that?
> 

Simple: why should this feature be available only when the filesystem is
automounted?  It shouldn't... you should have the same behaviour when
automounting as you have when you put it in /etc/fstab.

        -hpa

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