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Hello,
 
Is it feasible to hijack the automounter and issue your own custom mount command or must the automount program perform the actual "mount" call?
 
The reason why I am interested is that we are using the IBRIX parallel filesystem and we wish to have some clients mount IBRIX exported shares using it's own special "ibrix_lwmount" client mount command and non-ibrix clients to use the normal automount process. The catch is we want to use the same mountpoint under the control of autofs for both ibrix and non-ibrix clients.
 
Is this feat feasible? Any insight into how one might even approach this problem would be helpful to me and maybe to the whole community of ibrix users using linux.
 
I will say, I was able to simply double mount seemingly ok, meaning I allow the automount to mount the directory as it will under normal circumstances for regular clients, but then I run the ibrix mount command ontop of the same directory. At first I was also using the special ibrix umount command before I stopped the autofs daemon, but it seems if I don't umount the double mounted directory, autofs still unmounts all directory keys under the parent mountpoint fine.
 
Does this raise any eyebrows here?
 
Thanks.
-Daniel

 

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