On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:44:29PM -0600, Rick Troth wrote:
>> The tradition has been (I think this originated with Sun)
>> that if the mountable object is a volume, the syntax is "host:path".
>> But if the object to be mounted is a sub-directory of a shared volume,
>> the sub-dir is coded with a colon like this ... "host:path:subdir".
>> For example from "auto.home":
>> mything -rw,hard,intr server:/export/bigvolume:mysubdir
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> How is this different from server:/export/bigvolume/mysubdir?
Good question.
It's different because the server (mountd) rejects
"/export/bigvolume:mysubdir"
either with permission denied or no-such-object.
Since UNIX (thus Linux) alows colons in filenames and dir names
there could technically be a directory called "bigvolume:mysubdir".
But that's not what was/is meant in the automounter entry.
The automounter client must convert the colon to yield
"/export/bigvolume/mysubdir"
before performing the mount.
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Rick Troth, BMC Software, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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