Oops. Only sent this to Broch not the list. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kent, Ian I. > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:54 AM > To: 'Brock Murch' > Subject: RE: making keys appear > > > I'm not that familiar with the autofs code but (my observation is based on > autofs 4).... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brock Murch [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 6:58 AM > To: H. Peter Anvin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: making keys appear > > > > On Friday 22 June 2001 12:19 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Brock Murch wrote: > > > I don't want to see the contents of the external mounts! In the same > way > > > that the /carbon appears on the root's structure from the auto.master > > > file, why shouldn't I see the disk1 and disk5 under it from the > > > auto.carbon file. I don't want it to mount until I cd to it, or use it > > > somehow. Isn't it just a matter of making a /carbon/disk1 > /carbon/disk5 > > > mount points that are then mounted if required? > > > > No, it's not. > > > > > I mean I could, I suppose, make a /.automount /etc/auto.automount > > > -nosuid,rw,intr > > > > > > and then mkdir /carbon and ln -s /.automount/disk1 /carbon/disk1 > etc..... > > > > > > but it seems that an automount program could do this easily..... am I > > > missing something? > > > > Try doing an ls -l in a large directory like this and you'll see what > > you're missing. > > I am not sure I know what you are referring to. The ls -l , that I am > talking > about, should only show the keys designated in the auto.carbon map. Unless > > you have a huge map file, then there shouldn't be a problem > > ** I believe that the automount action is trigered by a directory cache > lookup. > ** This enumerates the existing directories (mount points) contained in > /carbon > ** which is what triggers the mount operation in autofs. > ** So for a large map you could find quite a lot of work going on. > > ** HPA or Jeremy please correct me if I am wrong. > > > > > -hpa > > -- > Brock Murch > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of South Florida > Remote Sensing Laboratory > System Administrator / Programmer > X-Band Manager
