On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 12:07, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:48:18 PST
> "Taylor, ForrestX" said:
>
> >Try the nosymlink option in the auto.net script.
>
> Errr, okay, where's the auto.net script? Is that automount map like
> auto.master? We don't actually have an auto.net script
>
> I'm not finding an auto.net file anywhere on my systems.
>
> Can you point me to documentation about this stuff? I can't even
> find mention of the fact that symlink optimization exists in the man
> pages.
In autofs4, "nosymlink" is a pseudo mount option which disables the
optimization. If you're using /net, then you can set that in your
/etc/auto.net script; if not, put it into whatever map you're using.
I'm not sure if autofs 3 supports this option. If you're using a recent
kernel and mount, it doesn't actually use symlinks but loopback
bindings; these are better than symlinks but may still not be what you
want.
J
