Ian Kent wrote:
> 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.
Bill, why aren't you using the -hosts map? This would make the behavior
of Linux work like Solaris. The map supplied will just mount "/" from
the server. This may work for NFSv4, but will not work so well for NFSv2
and NFSv3. You might also try forcing NFSv4 on the Ubuntu system.
ps
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