On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Jeff Moyer wrote:

> ==> Regarding [autofs] autofs - nfs with localhost; Rasmus Hahn <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]> adds:
> 
> rassahah> Hello Mr & Mrs Autofs-Reader, im using autofs-4.1.3 and want to
> rassahah> use an map-entry like
> 
> rassahah>   -port=12215,mountport=12215,nfsvers=3,soft,tcp,ro localhost:/.
> 
> rassahah> For some reason the automounter believes in beeing smarter than
> rassahah> me, and instead of mounting using the nfs daemon it could find on
> rassahah> port 12215 it uses a `mount --bind' to mount the root filesystem
> rassahah> without nfs.  How can i disable this to force automount to use
> rassahah> NFS? The manpages didnt reveal anything about this, is it an
> rassahah> experimental feature?
> 
> rassahah> (background: actually i dont want to remount my / somewhere else,
> rassahah> but using an ssh-tunnel on port 12215 with an nfsd on the other
> rassahah> end).
> 
> Sorry, there is no option to configure that.  So is this a feature request?
> ;)
> 

I've looked at that part of the code a couple of times recently as Chris 
is interested in tidying it up.

It certainly looks like it needs work. What was I thinking, doh.

Anyway, it also looks like that if the nosymlink option is specified it 
will work as requested here.

Ian

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