"Chandra R. Chegireddy" wrote:
>
> With the sun solaris, compaq tru64 and SGI IRIX autofs and automounter,
> we have a NIS map of about 150 filesystems that are sent out our server to
> all clients using the direct map method.
>
> for example
>
> /machine1/tmp machine1:/machine1/tmp
> ...
>
> We can list the directory of / and it shows all of the directories but
> does not mount any of them. If you do ls /machine1 all the filesystems
> from that machine show up as directories but are not mounted. Only when
> you access them directly using ls /machine1/tmp does it get mounted.
>
> On SGI for some reason the mount shows up twice one as an autofs and the
> other as the regular mount.
>
> It would be very nice if this behavior can be emulated on the linux autofs
>
A direct map of 150 entires?! You're insane! Make yourself and the
universe a favour and clean up your namespace. ALL your machines will
thank you.
-hpa
