On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:50 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:45 +0100, Howard Wilkinson wrote: > >> I have a site that is currently using NFS4 for most of its traffic. We > >> have a mix of autofs4 and autofs5 clients. The following map is used > >> to provide access to host filing system exports > >> > >> Auto.master: > >> > >> /hosts auto.hosts > >> > >> auto.hosts > >> > >> * > >> -fstype=nfs4,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid &:/ > >> > >> This works fine in both autofs4 and autofs5 if the client is not the > >> server (i.e. loopback ...) However with autofs5 this returns the root > >> of the local file system not the exported nfs4 root. > > > > Hahaha!!! > > > > Yes, that's certainly something I didn't anticipate. > > > > Historically, all local mounts are turned into bind mounts regardless of > > the options specified. I can't think of an acceptable way to do this and > > still use bind mounts so we need to consider under what conditions to > > not mount local mounts as bind mounts. > > > > I had a similar report recently and said that people expect that, if a > > mount is local, it will be bind mounted for to give map independence. > > > > So, this is a question for the list. > > What do people think? > > Remember the nosymlink option for automount? Well, that really meant, > "don't do special handling for local mount points." We could > introduce a similar option, though it would be hard to do so for only > the server. > > >> Is there a map syntax that would work round this? Ideally I would > >> like the map to be the same on all hosts, I can have different maps > >> on the autofs4 and autofs5 hosts easily but would not want to have > >> a separate map per host. > > > > No there isn't. > > Well, autofs4 might still honor nosymlink. I'd have to look.
Hahahah! Well, it's still in the code but whether it still does what's intended is another question. And then there's the name of the option. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
