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    Subjectautomount doesn't "follow" bind mounts
    I tried to subscribe to the autofs list, but majordomo isn't replying to 
    me! I think this is a problem in the automount daemon rather than the
    kernel autofs code itself.

    I'm trying to automount our home dirs as
    /homes/$USERNAME
    which should bind mount to
    :/home/$SERVER/$HOMENAME/$USERNAME
    which should bind mount to
    :/home/$SERVER/$VOLUME/$PATH/$USERNAME
    which (phew!) will be an NFS mount to
    $SERVER:/$VOLUME/$PATH/$USERNAME

    The idea is that:
    (1) `/bin/pwd` = "/homes/$USERNAME"
    (2) when you run "quota" it'll only report for $SERVER:/$VOLUME

    Now.. this all works perfectly if before looking at /homes/$USERNAME you
    look at firstly /home/$SERVER/$VOLUME/$PATH/$USERNAME and then secondly
    /home/$SERVER/$HOMENAME/$USERNAME, because the bind mounts have something
    to bind to. Of course you shouldn't need to know the middle bits, but you
    could look them up. Currently the binds mount fail and automount drops in
    symlinks; this satisfies (2) above, but unfortunately not (1).

    I hope someone can make sense of this. Is it different in autofs4?

    Matt

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