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From: "Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx.taylor@intel.com>
Subject: Re: mount fails because entry in multi-mount doesn't work
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:59:14 -0700
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On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 08:08, raven@themaw.net wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2004, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> 
> > Yesterday I ran into an issue where a mount point wasn't working and 
> > tracked it down to one of the submounts.  From what I can tell, if one 
> > of the submounts in a multi-mount doesn't work, the entire mount point 
> > won't work.  If that is the case, can this behavior be changed?
> 
> Use the -nonstrict option on the autofs mount.
> 
> OK this has happened one to many times. I think I'm going to change this 
> default.
> 
> What do people think about this idea?

Yes, please!  I have been asking for this default for years.

Forrest