Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:40:06 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Should mount --bind not follow symlinks? |
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Anthony Heading wrote:
> Hi, > My automounted dirs have up till now been symlinks, where > e.g. /opt/perl defaults to automounting /export/opt/perl/LATEST > which is a symlink. > > This all worked OK until the 2.4(.2) automounter helpfully tries > to mount --bind /export/opt/perl/LATEST /opt/perl
Don't mix symlinks with mounts/bindings. Too much PITA and yes, it had been deliberately prohibited. You _really_ don't want to handle the broken symlinks and all the realted fun - race-ridden at extreme and useless.
In automount-like setups you can _replace_ symlinks with bindings. No need to mix them. Cheers, Al
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