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Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've currently got a request to support the browse mount option.  It seems
> do-able entirely in the init script (and this seems the right place).
> Would there be any objections to such an approach?
>
> -Jeff
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How would you be able to do browsing from the init script given the
protocol restrictions imposed by autofs4?  Autofs4 uses the magic pgid
value as well as requiring a pipe fd to do communication.

If you are simply looking towards translating the browse option to the
ghosting used in automount4, then by all means go for it :)  However
please note that you will have to handle this in the daemon as well as
it is possible to nest indirect maps:

auto_master:

/src  auto_src -browse

auto_src:

linux -fstype=linux,browse auto_linux

If you are willing to wait, I've been working on the autofs
implementation I described at http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/6/167 that
will support browsing/lazy mounts.  I will be releasing it to the
community in the coming weeks pending some approvals..

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Mike Waychison
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