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

From: Ian Kent
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 20:32:10 EST


On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Tim Hockin wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:26:30AM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
> > /usr /man1 server:/usr/man1 \
> > /man2 server:/usr/man2
> >
> > is the same as the two distinct entries:
> >
> > /usr/man1 server:/usr/man1
> > /usr/man2 server:/usr/man2
> >
> > Now that I think about it, the discussion in my proposal paper about
> > multimounts with no root offsets probably isn't required.
>
> The latter requires /usr/man1 and /usr/man2 to exist. The former only
> requires /usr to exist, right?
>

That's one possibility, but man1 and man2 could simply not call filler in
the readdir call.

Ian


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