Re: simple automount question

[chris barry <Christopher.Barry@qlogic.com>]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 20:18 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 23:17 -0500, chris barry wrote:
> > I've googled, but have not found an answer to this seemingly simple
> > question.
> > 
> > I'm automounting /foo from box1 on box2. /foo has no files, just other
> > directories, one of which is bar.
> 
> No you're not.
> 
> You're mounting individual directories from box2.
> Things like, /foo/bar, /foo/baz, etc, are mounted individually, as
> requests to access them come in.
> 
> > 
> > box2 $ cd /foo
> > box2 $ ls
> > box2 $ (nothing shows up)
> > box2 $ cd bar
> > box2 $ cd ..
> > box2 $ ls
> > bar
> > box2 $
> > 
> > 
> > Q: how do I get all of the directories under /foo to show up after it's
> > automounted?
> > 
> > /etc/auto.master
> > /foo	/etc/auto.foo --timeout=60
> > 
> > /etc/auto.foo
> > (all on one line)
> > *              /
> > -fstype=nfs,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,rw,bg,hard,intr,noacl,nocto,async   10.20.30.40:/foo/&
> 
> How would autofs know what these directories are, to create them, from
> that map, * doesn't really say much and, even though this map has an ip
> address in the location others may not?

I though '*' said everything ;)

> 
> Ian
> 

So, the problem is auto.foo. I don't want it to make individual mounts
to every dir in /foo, I just want it to mount /foo when someone
accesses /foo/whatever. I'm assuming it should look like:

(all on one line)
/foo              /
-fstype=nfs,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,rw,bg,hard,intr,noacl,nocto,async   10.20.30.40:/foo/


I like the fact that /foo is disconnected automatically, so I don't want
to use fstab.

Thanks,
-C