From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:07:37 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40029C19.409@sun.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=------------enigEC06537060425A855A49AC28; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Return-path: In-reply-to: List-Id: To: Ian Kent Cc: Jim Carter , autofs mailing list , Kernel Mailing List This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigEC06537060425A855A49AC28 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.. -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice mailto: Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM http://www.sun.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------enigEC06537060425A855A49AC28 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAApwcdQs4kOxk3/MRAgxRAJ41kSxekMyt39Ke4HakQsUWUnYWTACfUOq7 GcLnjaIeN5Z4V15fYeVMDFQ= =1Y6P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigEC06537060425A855A49AC28--