I'm trying to implement consistent global pathnames in Linux - that is, full pathnames to files are the same on all systems, including NFS clients and servers. The problem is that autofs takes total ownership of the automounting directory, so it seems impossible to make the true file pathnames consistent between NFS servers and NFS clients.
ON HP-UX and Sun, we mount local filesystems in /mnt/<hostname>.<volume> and use the same names with direct automounts with NFS. (A symlink per volume on the local root disk avoids any need for nested NFS mounts, e.g. /usr/local -> /mnt/snow.local. Nested NFS mounts need to be avoided in a fully-cross-mounted network because they are can't be unmounted when the NFS server is down, which can happen a lot with users' workstations.) But I can't see how to implement consistent global pathnames in Linux because we can't put both fstab and autofs mounts into one directory. Does anyone have a solution? Thanks, Ken Poulton RHEL3 2.4.21-27.ELsmp autofs-4.1.3-47 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
