Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs

From: Ian Kent
Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 19:50:48 EST


On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Jim Carter wrote:

>
> > The exception to this rule is when the map entry for /home contains the
> > option 'browse':
>
> Solaris 2.6 and above has the -browse option on indirect maps, so the set
> of subdirs potentially mountable can be seen, without mounting them. I
> don't see where this is implemented in Linux, nor do I see how it's done,
> documented in Solaris NFS man pages, but I didn't put a lot of time into
> the search. I *hope* rpc.mountd has an opcode to enumerate every
> filesystem it's willing to export. Does it "stat" and return the stat
> data? That would be important for "ls".

So, even after our most recent email conversation, you still haven't
checked out autofs 4.1.0 and my kernel module kit.


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