Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:07:37 -0500 | From | Mike Waychison <> | Subject | Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs |
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Ian Kent wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > >>>Indeed, I >>>haven't solved my requirement of a transparent autofs filesystem aka. >>>Solaris automounter again. A difficult problem that will require >>>considerable effort. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>What do you mean by this? Something that doesn't show up in >>/proc/mounts? I don't see this as much of an issue.. On any decently >>large machine, there are so many entries anyway that /etc/mtab and >>/proc/mounts become humanly unparseable anyhow. >> >> > >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..
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