*- On 8 Jan, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote about "Re: autofs and mountpoint creation"
> 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?).
>
A little investigation showed why I was seeing automounts mounted when I
did an ls of a directory of links. I am using LS_COLORS to show a color
for symbolic links and a different color for orphaned links. Thus ls
must check the validity of the link which results in the mounts. I
think I will change my color setup!
This should also perhaps be added to the AUTOFS-HOWTO somewhere so I am
CC'ing this to Alvin Oga even though he reads this least.
Brian Servis
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