From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: giggzounet Subject: Re: Automount /home for all the users when a user try to use /home Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 08:32:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1306207386.3398.6.camel@perseus.themaw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1306207386.3398.6.camel@perseus.themaw.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org To: autofs@linux.kernel.org Le 24/05/2011 05:23, Ian Kent a =E9crit : > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 09:10 +0200, giggzounet wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm using autofs for years and on different configurations. It works >> great! so thx for your great work. >> >> But I have a little question/problem: >> We have a cluster (with CentOS 5.5). It's a little cluster, so the /home >> "is" on the master. And this /home is exported to the nodes. I have >> installed autofs in order to automount this /home when a user wants to >> use his /home. >> >> So at the moment the configuration is simple: >> cat auto.master >> /home /etc/auto.home >> >> cat auto.home >> * nfs_oscar:/home/& >> >> >> So when a user comes autofs mounts only the /home for the user. >> >> So at the moment it works. but I find it not optimal, because when 2 >> users try to connect from a node I get 2 mounts. >> >> I would like to get this behaviour: >> when a user try to connect to his /home, autofs mount all the export >> /home. It is possible ? > = > It might be possible to come up with a method to mount all the keys in a > indirect map on first access but that sounds like it would be more > difficult than it's worth. > = > Do you really need to mount these separately? > = > Could you use a direct mount map instead? > You could do this by using the following: > = > in the master map (possibly /etc/auto.master): > /- /etc/auto.direct.homes > = > and /etc/auto.direct.homes could contain: > /home oscar:/home > = > This way there is only one mount not many and it will always make all > home directories available on first access. > = > Ian thx a lot! i will try this!