Re: How to pass "-n" option to the mount command via automounter?

[Ondrej Valousek <webserv@s3group.cz>]

From what I see in the source for automounter, the answer is "no"  :-(
I even tried automount -O "rw -n" hack - should work but it does not.
In the spawn.c file I see comment that autofs ver. 5 needs to have
/etc/mtab file updated. This is not a problem as most diskless
environments have /etc/mtab pointed to /proc/mounts.

I believe this is a bug. Can we have it fixed? (for example detect if
/etc/mytab is a symlink and if it is, pass the -n option to the mount
command automagically)

Thanks,
Ondrej

Ondrej Valousek wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am wondering - I have diskless systems deployed here with /etc being
> read-only -> I need to pass "-n" option to the mount command in order to
> make it working.
> I tried:
>   
>> automount -O "-n"
>>     
> but it passes the -n option after -o, like this:
>
> mount_mount: mount(nfs): calling mount -t nfs -s -o -n
> hercules:/ext3/tmp /proj/tmp
>
> I need the -n option to be passed before "-o". How could I do it?
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> Ondrej
>
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