Hi All,
Well, after deciding I wanted to know more about this sort of thing, I
went out and got the O'Reilly book Managing NFS and NIS (2nd edition
1992)... And I found a fascinating set of entries on direct and indirect
maps in chapter 13, on "The Automounter".
Seems that in 1990, when I'd guess only Sun had an automounter, an entry
in /etc/auto.master like this:
/- /etc/auto.mapname
would make the automounter NOT create a mount point and auto.mapname had
to use fully qualified mount paths such as:
/usr/local/tools -rw machinename:/usr/local/tools
Cleaner still no?
Bruce Ferrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi ya "experts"....
>
> have a dumb question...
>
> besides the obivious....whats the difference between
> "mount point" and "key mount point"
>
> i consider /home/user/.autofs the "mount point"...
> like /mnt/floppy or /mnt/cdrom etc..etc..
>
> never did understand why or what the differences was
>
> and yes...i too use the symlink method .... simple/fast/easy
> ( as long as the number of machines is reasonable..even
> ( hundreds of machines/users is still okay...
> - it can all be 100% automated...
>
> can also use it for /n/<machine>/etc/auto.{master,home}/
> - makes it easy to compare machines and resync if needed
>
> thanx
> alvin
>
> > > autfs.master
> > > /home/user/.autofs /etc/autofs.user
> > >
> > > autofs.user
> > > dir -tfstype=nfs,rw some.host:///home/user/dir
> > >
> > > ln -s .autofs/dir dir
> > >
> > > I don't like using soft links all the time - but it works
> > >
> > > I should just be able to use dir as both the autofs mount point and the
> > > key mount point rather than hiding it
--
Bruce
One day at a time... One second if that's what it takes
