On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 12:09 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I had a look at the code which mounts these and it looks like if you
> adding a port= option will force an NFS mount to be done.
>
> Want to give it a try?
>
> Historically the nosymlink would have had the same affect but, even
> though the mount code looks for it it doesn't use it anymore. That may
> not be such a bad thing given the name of the option and the fact that
> it's not mentioned in the man pages. If this achieves what's needed then
> I'd rather document the use of the port= option in the man pages and
> keep the nosymlink a candidate for the chopping block.
But I just noticed you'd like the same map for v4 and v5.
Also, on second thoughts, I need to at least continue to support it for
the sake of the v4 users.
Please try this patch and let me know if it resolves the problem.
Ian
---
diff --git a/modules/mount_nfs.c b/modules/mount_nfs.c
index 25f72b9..e7a9a8a 100644
--- a/modules/mount_nfs.c
+++ b/modules/mount_nfs.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ int mount_mount(struct autofs_point *ap, const char *root,
const char *name, int
port_opt = strstr(nfsoptions, "port=");
/* Port option specified, don't try to bind */
- if (!port_opt && this->proximity == PROXIMITY_LOCAL) {
+ if (!nosymlink && !port_opt && this->proximity ==
PROXIMITY_LOCAL) {
/* Local host -- do a "bind" */
const char *bind_options = ro ? "ro" : "";
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