Re: /net support

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 16:22 -0400, David Meleedy wrote:
> Are there any plans to implement this correctly?  We are seeing
> problems with the auto.net script that just loads up every
> directory provided by the machine.  For example some of our
> fileservers have a lot of mounts, and this can really start
> filling up the mount table.  Also, some fileservers let certain
> clients mount some of the directories provided but not others.
> The error messages are confusing our user's because they are
> trying to cd to:
> 
> /net/<machine_name>/foo
> and they see an error message about not being able to mount
> /net/<machine_name>/goo
> 
> It would be a lot cleaner if only the directory you are cd'ing
> to got mounted instead of every directory.

As Jeff says, autofs version 5 works in a similar way to other
automounters now, by mounting (and expiring) the exported shares as you
go.

There is also a built in "-hosts" map now.

However, I've recently discovered that I haven't covered some of the
export access control syntax used by Solaris servers so you may still
need to use the auto.net script.

This issue will never be fixed in version 4 because version 4 cannot
handle the nesting of mounts found in server export lists.

Ian