On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:43:51AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 04:50:00PM -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote: > > I've found references to "direct" and "indirect" maps throughout the > > various autofs documentation. However, I have not yet found an > > understandable definition of what the difference is. Could someone > > enlighten me? > > Direct maps are relative to /, indirect maps are relative to some other path. > > (At least that's my understanding of it.) >
A practical way to think about it is that direct maps are things that you may otherwise put into /etc/fstab except that you may want them centrally controlled. It's the way to fake a common federated namespace - like AFS - which lets you create the same mountpoints on all systems even if the fstab format is different and even if the server changes once in a while. Except it doesn't actually work on linux yet, but the team here seems to be really trying to get this one done. -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one. _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
