On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Krishnakumar B wrote: > > Can't do that at present. Direct mounts are not fully implemented. > > My manpage for autofs(5) claims the following: > > UNSUPPORTED > This version of the automounter supports direct maps for FILE, NIS > and LDAP maps only and handles SunOS-style replicated filesystems > only to the extent that mount(8) does.
Perhaps I need to change this to be more accurate. > > So is my manpage wrong, or does "direct maps" mean something other than > "direct mounts"? Or are you referring to the following limitation (from > README.direct v1.3). > > NOTE: Due to current design limitations, direct maps will take over an > entire directory hierarchy. What this means is, if your direct map key is > /usr/share/bilbo, then /usr will become an automount mount point, mounting > over the existing /usr. I'm refering to the design limitation mentioned in this note. This will continue to be the case in 4.1.4 (in fact 4.1.x). I plan on creating a 4.2.0 development branch at some point fairly soon. This will be the top priority for that development. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
