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From: "Gordon Lack" <gml4410@ggr.co.uk>
Subject: autofsv5 - mouting files (not dirs)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:33:40 +0000
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    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?