Re: autofs and mountpoint creation

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 08:34:46AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> 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?).  


No.  If you do an ls -l /n, and /n is just symlinks, then all you get
is a list of symlinks.  If you do a "ls -ld /n/*/.", then you're really
asking for a list of the top-level inodes in each filesystem, and it
has no choice but to mount them (what else could it do: make up ownership
and permissions?).

        J