On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Jeff Moyer wrote: > ==> Regarding [autofs] Cascading/recursive autofs mounts?; Axel Thimm <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> adds: > > Axel.Thimm> Hi, we have a setup, where we would like to have autofs mount > Axel.Thimm> over NFS a certain folder and then bind-mount from subfolders > Axel.Thimm> to other places. > > Axel.Thimm> Can this work with autofs? E.g. can autofs cascade mount > Axel.Thimm> requests? E.g. if the first autofs request would require a > Axel.Thimm> second one to be performed first, would the second one properly > Axel.Thimm> mount the NFS share and the outer one continue with bind > Axel.Thimm> mounting?. It looks like the first one would lock > Axel.Thimm> /var/lock/autofs and the inner autofs request would fail. > > Correct. The way things are structured in autofs4.1.4, recursive mounts > such as this are not supported.
This should be able to be done with Sun style offset mounts (which we are calling multi-mounts). We can't do that atm but that's comming. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
