Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>
> 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?
>
If you don't have to implement it, sure. It's a nightmare
implementation-wise. Perhaps in autofs 5.
-hpa
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