Ian Kent wrote:

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote:



Indeed, I
haven't solved my requirement of a transparent autofs filesystem aka.
Solaris automounter again. A difficult problem that will require
considerable effort.





What do you mean by this? Something that doesn't show up in
/proc/mounts? I don't see this as much of an issue.. On any decently
large machine, there are so many entries anyway that /etc/mtab and
/proc/mounts become humanly unparseable anyhow.



Transparency of an autofs filesystem (as I'm calling it) is the situation where, given a map

/usr    /man1   server:/usr/man1
        /man2   server:/usr/man2

where the filesystem /usr contains, say a directory lib, that needs to be
available while also seeing the automounted directories.



I see. This requires direct mount triggers to do properly. Trying to do it with some sort of passthrough to the underlying filesystem is a nightmare waiting to happen..

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