Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs

From: raven
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 11:04:07 EST


On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote:

> >
> >Transparency of an autofs filesystem (as I'm calling it) is the situation
> >where, given a map
> >
> >/usr /man1 server:/usr/man1
> > /man2 server:/usr/man2
> >
> >where the filesystem /usr contains, say a directory lib, that needs to be
> >available while also seeing the automounted directories.
> >
> >
> >
> I see. This requires direct mount triggers to do properly. Trying to
> do it with some sort of passthrough to the underlying filesystem is a
> nightmare waiting to happen..
>

So what are we saying here?

We install triggers at /usr/man1 and /usr/man2.
Then suppose the map had a nobrowse option.
Does the trigger also take care of hiding man1 and man2?

Is there some definition of these triggers?

Ian

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