On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:32 +0200, Matthias Koenig wrote: > Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:21 +0200, Matthias Koenig wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> we noticed a problem concerning loop mounts on locations that > >> have to be mounted before. E.g. consider the following situation, > >> a NFS server exporting a cd image, which we want to loop mount > >> locally to get access to the content: > >> > >> auto.master: > >> /cdimage auto.cdimage > >> /cdcontent auto.cdcontent > >> > >> auto.cdimage: > >> foo nfsserver:/cdimage/foo.img > >> > >> auto.cdcontent: > >> foo -fstype=auto,loop :/cdimage/foo/foo.img > >> > >> The access to /cdcontent/foo will fail, when /cdimage/foo is not > >> mounted before, because spawn_mount does not use SPAWN_OPT_ACCESS > >> in this case. > >> The patch below fixes this problem. > > > > I can't remember now. > > I wonder why I don't always call access? > > I must have had a reason, let me think about it for a while. > > Yes, I first tried to set SPAWN_OPT_ACCESS as default, but this did > not work and had the negative effect, that NFS mounts could not > be mounted anymore, because an access() has been done on the > NFS location description "nfsserver:/cdimage", which then fails.
Of course, I'll go with you're patch. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
