On Thursday, 21. June 2001 00:55, David S. wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:47:49PM -0400, Oakham, Geoff wrote:
> > autofs is happily mounting most of the auto.master mounts, but it's
> > missing all of the `direct' mounts (stuff that's supposed go in / ). I
> > can manually mount them, but I've had no success with a manual automount.
> >
> > I've heard a rumour that this is a shortcoming of autofs.. if this is
> > true, is there a good workaround? It's important the box looks like a
> > company UNIX box.
> >
> > Any clues as to what's happening on this front would be helpful.. thanks
> > muchly,
>
> Unlike Solaris', Linux's 'autofs' doesn't support direct mounts. If
> you're not absolutely wed to 'autofs', you can do airect mounts with
> 'amd'.
I think the amd is not the best solution for the problem. We have here a lot
of problems using it.
The better solution is to make autofs do the same as amd does. Make a /auto
and run automount on it. Then make symlinks to the places you need direct
mounts. I'm using it here for /var/spool/mail. It works fine. amd does ALL
mounts under /amd und makes symlinks to the right places.
Jochen
