From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Taylor, ForrestX" Subject: Re: making the mountpoints visible all the time Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:24:05 -0800 Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Message-ID: <1069201444.28347.12.camel@ugly> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ian Kent Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:04, Ian Kent wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > > > Alexander Macdonald wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I've currently got automount setup so that i can cd into a directory > > > like /mnt/someplace and someplace will be automatically created and > > > mounted... it would be quite usefull if that directory was allways > > > visible so that i could browse to it in gui applications... how do i do > > > that? > > > > If you want it visible all the time, use /etc/fstab, not autofs. Work > > is being done on leaving the directory structure before actually > > mounting it, but it is not finished yet. > > > > Umm ... > > Beg to disagree. > > The autofs4-2.4 module build kit or the patches contained in it or the > patches contained in autofs-4.1.0-beta3 can give you this for some of the > maps. NIS, LDAP and file maps work at the moment. > > I's in the expected place on kernel.org. Now it is my turn to apologize. I saw the autofs module on the ftp site, but I didn't have time to investigate. Has this module been included in the upstream kernel yet? Forrest --