From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Gordon Lack <gml4410@ggr.co.uk>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -hosts and -null enabling for autofs v4.1.x
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:31:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49bqrsia8r.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B780FA.DC42CB24@ggr.co.uk> (Gordon Lack's message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:33:14 +0100")
==> Regarding Re: [autofs] -hosts and -null enabling for autofs v4.1.x; "Gordon Lack" <gml4410@ggr.co.uk> adds:
gml4410> Jeff Moyer wrote:
>>
gml4410> For -null, it just adds the mountpoint location to the list of
gml4410> knownmaps, but doesn't do anything else.
>>
>> This isn't exactly right. It should "nullify" the next occurrence of the
>> given mount point, and then go away.
gml4410> That isn't how automount maps are supposed to work (at least
gml4410> not Sun ones, according to how I read the documentation). Only
gml4410> the *first* occurrence of a mountpoint is supposed to be used -
gml4410> that is meant to override *all* following occurences.
Yes, you are correct. This line in the man page is what confused me:
The -null map cancels a previous map for the directory indi-
cated.
Thanks!
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-14 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-07 15:02 -hosts and -null enabling for autofs v4.1.x Gordon Lack
2006-07-13 13:10 ` Ian Kent
2006-07-13 13:42 ` Jeff Moyer
2006-07-14 11:33 ` Gordon Lack
2006-07-14 13:31 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2006-07-14 15:58 ` Gordon Lack
2006-08-07 6:56 ` Ian Kent
2006-08-22 14:03 ` Bug (and patch) in autofs init.d script (v4.1.4) Gordon Lack
2006-08-22 14:18 ` Enhancement patch for autofs v4.1.4 init.d script Gordon Lack
2006-09-08 11:31 ` Bug in autofs v4.1.4 init.d script (and fix) Gordon Lack
2006-09-12 12:58 ` Bug in autofs v4.1.4 init.d script for reload " Gordon Lack
2006-09-13 9:42 ` Gordon Lack
2006-11-10 11:58 ` autofsv5 bug. Non-existent dirs get "mounted"! Gordon Lack
2006-11-10 12:05 ` autofsv5 enhancement - map names in /proc/mounts Gordon Lack
2006-11-10 17:33 ` autofsv5 - mouting files (not dirs) Gordon Lack
2006-11-11 2:58 ` Ian Kent
2006-11-11 2:53 ` autofsv5 enhancement - map names in /proc/mounts Ian Kent
2006-11-13 10:09 ` Gordon Lack
2006-11-13 15:44 ` Ian Kent
2006-11-13 16:58 ` Gordon Lack
2006-11-14 2:00 ` Ian Kent
2006-11-14 10:00 ` Gordon Lack
2006-11-14 11:42 ` Ian Kent
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