Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:01:15 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs |
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Jim Carter wrote: > >>For justification to it's worth, some institutions have file servers >>that export hundreds or even thousands of shares over NFS. As /net is >>really just a kind of executable indirect map that returns multimounts >>for each hostname used as a key, just doing 'cd /net/hostname' may >>potentially mount hundreds of filesystems. This is not cool! > > Definitely not cool. But some users (yours truly among them) do "alias ls > 'ls -F'", which requires "ls" to stat (and thus mount) every exported > filesystem. More uncool, and I don't see any non-disgusting way around it. >
No, it doesn't... this has been covered several times already. It requires ls to *lstat* the point; it only does a stat() if the resulting entry is S_IFLNK. The same is true for GUI tools. There is a fairly easy way to distinguish lstat() from virtually all other filesystem calls -- it doesn't invoke follow_link. So the answer is simply to create an inode which is S_IFDIR but has a follow_link method. The follow_link method triggers a mount. This is called a "pseudo-symlink directory" or sometimes "ghost directory".
-hpa
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