From: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Jim Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu>,
autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:07:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40029C19.409@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0401101325280.2403-100000@wombat.indigo.net.au>
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Ian Kent wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote:
>
>
>
>>>Indeed, I
>>>haven't solved my requirement of a transparent autofs filesystem aka.
>>>Solaris automounter again. A difficult problem that will require
>>>considerable effort.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>What do you mean by this? Something that doesn't show up in
>>/proc/mounts? I don't see this as much of an issue.. On any decently
>>large machine, there are so many entries anyway that /etc/mtab and
>>/proc/mounts become humanly unparseable anyhow.
>>
>>
>
>Transparency of an autofs filesystem (as I'm calling it) is the situation
>where, given a map
>
>/usr /man1 server:/usr/man1
> /man2 server:/usr/man2
>
>where the filesystem /usr contains, say a directory lib, that needs to be
>available while also seeing the automounted directories.
>
>
>
I see. This requires direct mount triggers to do properly. Trying to
do it with some sort of passthrough to the underlying filesystem is a
nightmare waiting to happen..
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-12 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-06 19:55 [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 19:55 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 21:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 21:01 ` [autofs] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 21:44 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 21:44 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 21:50 ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-06 21:50 ` [autofs] " Tim Hockin
2004-01-06 22:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 22:06 ` [autofs] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 22:17 ` Tim Hockin
[not found] ` <20040106221502.GA7398@hockin.org>
2004-01-06 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 22:20 ` [autofs] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-07 16:19 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-07 16:19 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-07 17:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-07 21:13 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 22:28 ` name spaces good (was: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs) Dax Kelson
2004-01-06 22:48 ` name spaces good H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 22:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-07 21:14 ` [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs Jim Carter
2004-01-07 21:14 ` [autofs] " Jim Carter
2004-01-07 22:55 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-07 22:55 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-08 12:00 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 12:00 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-08 15:39 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 18:20 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-09 18:20 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-09 20:06 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:06 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-10 5:43 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-12 13:07 ` Mike Waychison [this message]
2004-01-12 16:01 ` raven
2004-01-12 16:26 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-12 22:50 ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-12 23:28 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-13 1:30 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-13 1:30 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-12 16:28 ` raven
2004-01-12 16:58 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-13 1:54 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-13 1:54 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-13 19:01 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-13 19:01 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-14 15:58 ` raven
2004-01-14 19:32 ` running out of mount points Greg Bradner
2004-01-19 15:48 ` Greg Bradner
2004-01-19 17:11 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-19 19:07 ` Greg Bradner
2004-01-20 19:15 ` Jim Carter
2004-01-13 18:46 ` [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs Mike Waychison
2004-01-13 18:46 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:51 ` Jim Carter
2004-01-09 20:51 ` [autofs] " Jim Carter
2004-01-10 5:56 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 17:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-08 19:41 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-08 23:42 ` Michael Clark
2004-01-09 20:28 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:28 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-09 20:54 ` [autofs] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-09 21:43 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 21:43 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 18:32 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-09 18:32 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-09 20:52 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:52 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-10 6:05 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 12:29 ` Olivier Galibert
2004-01-08 13:20 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-01-08 16:23 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-08 12:35 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 13:08 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 18:20 ` Jim Carter
2004-01-08 21:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-08 0:48 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 0:48 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-06 22:28 Ogden, Aaron A.
2004-01-06 22:41 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-06 22:47 ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-06 22:53 ` Paul Raines
2004-01-07 23:14 ` Jim Carter
2004-01-07 23:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-08 12:52 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 12:52 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 18:31 ` viro
2004-01-09 18:43 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-09 19:41 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 19:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-09 21:31 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 21:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 23:34 Ogden, Aaron A.
2004-01-06 23:47 ` Tim Hockin
[not found] <1b5GC-29h-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1b6CO-3v0-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-01-07 4:21 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-07 17:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-07 21:04 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-07 21:11 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-07 23:40 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-07 21:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-07 23:47 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-07 23:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-12 16:57 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-13 7:39 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 19:32 trond.myklebust
2004-01-08 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-08 20:08 ` trond.myklebust
2004-01-08 21:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-08 22:20 ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-01-08 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-09 20:37 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-09 21:52 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:16 ` Mike Waychison
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