Jordan S. Jacobs wrote:
> What is the status of autofs when it comes to browsing indirect maps?
>
> What would it take to get this functionality?
>
Planned in a future rewrite (autofs v5).
Major engineering work.
Long answer:
It's not the browsing that's the big problem (assuming the key database
is enumerable, which not all of them are.) Rather, it's the "ls -l
mounts everything" issue, which requires something called stat spoofing
or inode spoofing. This is an extremely awkward operation, because it
requires creating a fake VFS object that is valid for some operations
(lookup, stat) but not for others.
-hpa
