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

[raven]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 raven@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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?
> 

And I have another question concerning namespaces.

Given that there may be several namespaces, each of which may or may not 
have a trigger on this dentry, is there some sort of list of triggers?

How do the triggers know who owns them?

Ian

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