On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:20 -0700, Steve Potter wrote:
> > On a SuSE 10.1 machine I'm setting up, running autofs 4.1.4-23,
> > when I do an ls of /net/foo, instead of getting 'export', I get
> > the subdirectories of foo:/export.  That is, to get to the
> > file foo:/export/xyz I would need to use /net/foo/xyz instead
> > of /net/foo/export/xyz.
> 
> I found out a little more about the problem.  If the target
> machine is exporting only 1 directory, the contents of
> that directory get mounted regardless of whether the
> directory is '/' or some subdirectory like '/export'.  If the
> target machine is exporting more than 1 directory, they
> seem to get mounted correctly.  Is this a known bug and
> I just need to update to a later autofs?

Don't think that would be fixed in a later version, you might want to
check the patches on kernel.org.

> 
> It seems unlikely to me that it is deliberate that an exported
> directory gets automounted differently depending on
> what else is exported.

Sounds a bit like a bug.

Ian


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