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From: Stef Bon <stef@bononline.nl>
Subject: Re: bind mounting into a generated multi-level directory
 structure
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:50:27 +0100
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Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> I have a set of directories that are created and removed programmatically, 
> and are hashed three levels deep (/top/hash/hash/name).  The depth is 
> constant, the hashes and names are not.  There are around 35k at any time. 
> I would like to bind mount a common directory into each top-level 
> (/top/hash/hash/name/data) on demand.
>
> Can I use autofs to do that without having to explicitly list all of the 
> directory paths in auto.master?
>   
Why not use symlinks to this shared common directory, and mount that one?

Stef Bon