Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:28:32 +0800 (WST) | From | raven@themaw ... | Subject | Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs |
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 raven@themaw.net wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > > > > >Transparency of an autofs filesystem (as I'm calling it) is the situation > > >where, given a map > > > > > >/usr /man1 server:/usr/man1 > > > /man2 server:/usr/man2 > > > > > >where the filesystem /usr contains, say a directory lib, that needs to be > > >available while also seeing the automounted directories. > > > > > > > > > > > I see. This requires direct mount triggers to do properly. Trying to > > do it with some sort of passthrough to the underlying filesystem is a > > nightmare waiting to happen.. > > > > So what are we saying here? > > We install triggers at /usr/man1 and /usr/man2. > Then suppose the map had a nobrowse option. > Does the trigger also take care of hiding man1 and man2? > > Is there some definition of these triggers? >
And I have another question concerning namespaces.
Given that there may be several namespaces, each of which may or may not have a trigger on this dentry, is there some sort of list of triggers?
How do the triggers know who owns them?
Ian
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