Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266354AbUALQBZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:01:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266406AbUALQBZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:01:25 -0500 Received: from mail-10.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.42]:30102 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266354AbUALQBW (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:01:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:01:26 +0800 (WST) From: raven@themaw.net To: Mike Waychison cc: Jim Carter , autofs mailing list , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs In-Reply-To: <40029C19.409@sun.com> Message-ID: References: <40029C19.409@sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 34 On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > >Transparency of an autofs filesystem (as I'm calling it) is the situation > >where, given a map > > > >/usr /man1 server:/usr/man1 > > /man2 server:/usr/man2 > > > >where the filesystem /usr contains, say a directory lib, that needs to be > >available while also seeing the automounted directories. > > > > > > > I see. This requires direct mount triggers to do properly. Trying to > do it with some sort of passthrough to the underlying filesystem is a > nightmare waiting to happen.. > So what are we saying here? We install triggers at /usr/man1 and /usr/man2. Then suppose the map had a nobrowse option. Does the trigger also take care of hiding man1 and man2? Is there some definition of these triggers? Ian - 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/