On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Anthony Heading wrote:
> Hi,
> My automounted dirs have up till now been symlinks, where
> e.g. /opt/perl defaults to automounting /export/opt/perl/LATEST
> which is a symlink.
>
> This all worked OK until the 2.4(.2) automounter helpfully tries
> to mount --bind /export/opt/perl/LATEST /opt/perl
Don't mix symlinks with mounts/bindings. Too much PITA and yes, it had
been deliberately prohibited. You _really_ don't want to handle the
broken symlinks and all the realted fun - race-ridden at extreme and
useless.
In automount-like setups you can _replace_ symlinks with bindings.
No need to mix them.
Cheers,
Al
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