On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 23:25 -0800, Bill Shannon wrote: > Ian Kent wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 18:27 -0800, Bill Shannon wrote: > >> I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on my desktop at home. > >> I have an OpenSolaris 2008.11 server and a Solaris 10 server. > >> Both servers export NFS filesystems. > >> > >> On my Ubuntu desktop, the autmounter doesn't want to automount hierarchical > >> filesystems. I first noticed this with /home, but /net doesn't work > >> either. > >> > >> My OpenSolaris server is named "nissan". My Solaris server is named > >> "nissan2". > >> > >> # showmount -e nissan > >> Export list for nissan: > >> /backup (everyone) > >> /backup/download (everyone) > >> /export/home/admin (everyone) > >> /backup/pictures (everyone) > >> /export/home/shannon (everyone) > >> /export/home (everyone) > >> /export/home/readerware (everyone) > >> /backup2 (everyone) > >> /export/home/opt (everyone) > >> # showmount -e nissan2 > >> Export list for nissan2: > >> /export/home (everyone) > >> /backup (everyone) > >> /backup2 (everyone) > >> # cat /etc/auto.net > >> * -rw,intr &:/ > > > > How is do you expect this to work, explain? > > The simple answer is - the same way it works on Solaris and Mac OS.
I asked you "how" is this supposed to work not "what" you think is is supposed to be the result. > > I should see the following directories: > > /net/nissan/backup > /net/nissan/backup/download > /net/nissan/backup/pictures > /net/nissan/export > /net/nissan/export/home > /net/nissan/export/home/shannon I can't see how the above map entry can provide these mappings and if you can't provide an accurate description of how the mounts are constructed I can't tell you whether Linux autofs can, either do what you expect or be updated to do what you expect. > > and so on. > > After autofs mounts nissan:/backup on /net/nissan, it then > needs to mount nissan:/backup/download on /net/nissan/backup/download. > > And in the case of nissan:/export, there's nothing to mount on > /net/nissan/export, so autofs needs to create a pseudo-directory > that contains an entry for "home". > > Understand? No, I don't understand at all, but that's because you've not provided any useful information. Where in the Solaris documentation is the behavior of this type of map entry described. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
