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From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: direct vs indirect maps??
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 03:43:51 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 04:50:00PM -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote:
> I've found references to "direct" and "indirect" maps throughout the 
> various autofs documentation.  However, I have not yet found an 
> understandable definition of what the difference is.  Could someone 
> enlighten me?

Direct maps are relative to /, indirect maps are relative to some other path.

(At least that's my understanding of it.)

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