On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 07:45 +0100, Piete Brooks wrote:
> [ apologies if this is a repeat, but I didn't notice getting my copy before ]
> 
> Is there a simple way to get autofs to behave like tfs to get:
> 
>       IF       /localdir/$key/ exists
>       THEN use /localdir/$key/
>       ELSE use server:/remotedir/$key/
> 
> I was hoping to use something like the multi-home mechanism which tried each 
> path in order until one worked.
> 
> I can set it up by hand using
> 
>       d1      :/localdir/&
>       d2      :/localdir/&
>       *       -rw server:/remotedir/&
> 
> but that needs editing on each host as each /localdir/ is created.

Don't quite know what you mean by this?

> 
> I assume I can HACK it using a programme hook which looks to see if 
> /localdir/& exists, but it would be much cleaner to use the multi-home style 
> list. Is this possible?

Maybe:

*       -rw :/localdir/& server:/remotedir/&

I think that if /localdir/& doesn't exist the bind mount will fail after
which server:/remotedir/& should be tried.

Ian


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