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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: autofsv5 - mouting files (not dirs)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:58:16 +0800
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To: Gordon Lack <gml4410@ggr.co.uk>
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On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 17:33 +0000, Gordon Lack wrote:
>     The automount code (at least for indirect mounts) will not mount an 
> entry which is a file - it has to be a directory.
> 
>     The reason behind this is that the code first creates the directory 
> then tries to mount the remote object on it.
> 
>     In order to mount a remote file you need to mount it over a file, 
> not a directory.  (As far as I can tell, mounting a file on a file works 
> OK in Linux).
> 
>     Would it be possible to get automount to retry on a file if it gets 
> ENOTDIR from the remote end?

You got me there. I'm not sure about mounting on files at this stage.

I think there's probably a bit more to change than just the create
directory function.

Ian