On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 13:59 +0200, Ondrej Valousek wrote: > From what I see in the source for automounter, the answer is "no" :-( > I even tried automount -O "rw -n" hack - should work but it does not. > In the spawn.c file I see comment that autofs ver. 5 needs to have > /etc/mtab file updated. This is not a problem as most diskless > environments have /etc/mtab pointed to /proc/mounts. > > I believe this is a bug. Can we have it fixed? (for example detect if > /etc/mytab is a symlink and if it is, pass the -n option to the mount > command automagically)
ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab in the partition that is used for your /etc should do what you need. > > Thanks, > Ondrej > > Ondrej Valousek wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I am wondering - I have diskless systems deployed here with /etc being > > read-only -> I need to pass "-n" option to the mount command in order to > > make it working. > > I tried: > > > >> automount -O "-n" > >> > > but it passes the -n option after -o, like this: > > > > mount_mount: mount(nfs): calling mount -t nfs -s -o -n > > hercules:/ext3/tmp /proj/tmp > > > > I need the -n option to be passed before "-o". How could I do it? > > Many thanks for your help. > > > > Ondrej > > > > _______________________________________________ > > autofs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs > > > > _______________________________________________ > autofs mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
