I have a situation where I have a set of file systems that are automounted by
the automount file system in 2.4.x under /misc. I'd like to make those file
systems available via NFS from machine.
In the ideal case, I would have something like this in /etc/exports:
/misc 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 (rw)
Thus, a client machine could mount server:/misc as /somedir, and then cause a
filesystem to be mounted by accessing /somedir/some_auto_filesystem.
However, that doesn't work, as the NFSD seems to want to do a getfh() IOCTL on
the auto file system, and autofs doesn't seem to support that IOCTL.
(I can work around this by explicitly exporting each possible file system under
/misc, and allowing clients to mount them directly, but this isn't the greatest
solution.)
First, is anybody working on this? If not, I may try my hand at it.
Second, if nobody is working on it, anybody have pointers on a good file system
to model a getfh() for autofs on?
Please CC me, as I'm not currently subscribed to the list.
#include <std_disclaimer>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Nov 15 2001 - 21:00:30 EST