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Ian Kent wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > >>>Indeed, I >>>haven't solved my requirement of a transparent autofs filesystem aka. >>>Solaris automounter again. A difficult problem that will require >>>considerable effort. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>What do you mean by this? Something that doesn't show up in >>/proc/mounts? I don't see this as much of an issue.. On any decently >>large machine, there are so many entries anyway that /etc/mtab and >>/proc/mounts become humanly unparseable anyhow. >> >> > >Transparency of an autofs filesystem (as I'm calling it) is the situation >where, given a map > >/usr /man1 server:/usr/man1 > /man2 server:/usr/man2 > >where the filesystem /usr contains, say a directory lib, that needs to be >available while also seeing the automounted directories. > > > I see. This requires direct mount triggers to do properly. Trying to do it with some sort of passthrough to the underlying filesystem is a nightmare waiting to happen.. -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice mailto: Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM http://www.sun.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ||||||||||||
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