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Hello, Does autofs / automount have the ability to bind one
directory to another like ‘mount –o bind dir1 dir2’?
And if so, can this be handled by using wildcards in the maps? Here is my
situation: I have a large directory of user’s home
directories. These are in a chroot jail, so making soft links isn’t
an option, and hard links won’t work for directories. I need to bind
(mount) a directory that lives outside the chroot jail to a directory / mount
point inside each home directory. The users will only be accessing this
directory for short periods (to copy a file or two), and I think it would be
more practical to have autofs mount it whenever they needed access to it, and
unmount it when they’re done. I’m not sure on the exact number of mounted
filesystems Linux can handle (or if a directory mounded via –o bind
counts towards that, though I’d assume it would), but I would think that
using automount instead of putting hundreds of entries into fstab would be more
the Linux way of doing things. Even if I had to put an entry for each
user in a map, that would be a better solution to me than using fstab, since
they all wouldn’t be mounted at the same time, all the time. Dir to be accessed by all users: /home/stuff/everyone Mounted to: /home/users/*/everyone Is this even possible? Thanks, -Lucas |
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