On Tue, 4 May 2004, Tom Georgoulias wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > We'll leave this to the people on the list to decide whether this 
> > behaviour should be changed.
> 
> Well, from our point of view, it is nice to be able to create maps that 
> are empty at first and not have to worry about populating them until 
> later.  This gives us our group the flexibility to plan out in advance 
> how our mounts will look, put the necessary mount points in place during 
> the regular maintenance intervals (by rebooting the systems, something 
> we can't always do), and adding map entries later on as the data is 
> moved to the new location.
> 

Good point.

I'll be poking around to see what this means for the autofs code anyway.

Ian

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