On 02/11/2017 07:14 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
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.
I forgot about that, I was thinking the directories exist even when the
file system is not mounted.
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.
Yes, it is even more difficult to scan the trees. You still need to
mount (and recall if necessary) each filesystem but have no simple way
of knowing the directory names. So if e.g. an auditor wants you to scan
for certain files, individual filesystems make your job very difficult.
It might even be a good way to hide things in the system.
--
Andrew Rowley
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