Re: autofs and mountpoint creation

[Eric Werme USG]

   "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.
   
   A direct map of 150 entires?!  You're insane! 

Heh, heh, heh.  We're just as insane.  Even more so:

$ mount -e | grep pid | wc 
       229      3140     30367

Most of those are direct maps!

Our admins split things up between five separate automount (we don't have
autofs yet).  Oops - seven!

        -Ric Werme