*- On 5 Jan, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote about "Re: autofs and mountpoint creation"
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 01:08:33PM +0100, Roger Zimmermann wrote:
>> Since autofs creates the mountpoint while acessing the filesystem there
>> is no chance to access the filesystem via the Mac (All fixmounted
>> systems work, of course). Until now, it was possible to force at least
>
> This isn't possible in general, since the autofs daemon doesn't know
> what mountpoints will work (eg, in the case of program mounts).
>
> I generaly fake this with a directory of symlinks. For example,
> /net is an automount NFS directory, and /n is a set of symlinks to ../net
> (/n/host -> ../net/host).
>
Yes, I have found this solution to be acceptable. But the only
disadvantage is that if you do a directory listing in /n then ALL the
mounts that are pointed to by the symlinks get mounted. If there are a
lot then this can take a while to process(and waste resources?). This
is what is described in the autofs-HOWT at
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html.
Brian Servis
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