>This question does illustrate why I dislike the IBM suggestion of individual automounted home directories so much - if your search includes automounted directories, every single one must be mounted. If you reckon directory seaches are slow, try HSM recalling filesystems one at a time...
I dare to disagree a bit. If you look (find, ls, whatever) at a automount managed directory, you will see only those subdirectories which currently *have* the corresponding file system mounted. You will not detect any other subdirectory, because they simply do not exist when the file system is *not* mounted. automount dynamically creates the subdirectory when it is first accessed, then mounts the file system. After some inactivity time interval (depending on automount configuration), automount unmounts the files system, and deletes the subdirectory. And this makes it ever worse to scan such trees. You need to find a way to learn what directories are to be searched, and then start another search for each one of them. Think about that this means to the file level backup process, should you have one. That process will again see only what is munted at the time the backup runs. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
