On Mittwoch 19 Oktober 2005 17:55, Ian Kent wrote: > As Jeff has said this sort of nesting of mounts is, in general, not > supported by autofs and it worked previously because the locking was less > broken in 4.1.3 than in 4.1.4 (yes its still broken in 4.1.4). > > Can this case be done safely? > > I'm not entirely sure of the answer to this but I've never liked using > locking in autofs. I introduced it only to prevent mtab corruption during > mount (correct me if you have a different recollection Jeff). It happens > during rapid mount activity such as when there as a largish number of > entries in the master map (of the order of 50 or more). > > The mtab locking should be done in mount which narrows the scope of the > lock enough to allow this case to function as requested. >
For me it would be important to learn if this feature will be possible in the future or if it is decided that for whatever reason it will not be. The former case would be the best thing for me because I would not have to find a new solution for mounting home directories and I guess other people with a large user base would also welcome it. In the latter case I have to think about a alternative way to go for the future. At the moment my solution is to use an older version of autofs for suse10.0 installations since this older autofs version simply works for me but this is of course not an ideal solution. Any comments? Thanks Rainer Krienke -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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