Autofs5 fails on cascading/hierarchical mounts
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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autofs (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: autofs
We use cascading mounts to reduce the number of NFS mounts. Consider the following situation: When a user accesses /home/<username>, all homes exported on our file server should be mounted at /net/user (via NFS) if it didn't happen earlier. After that, the directory /net/user/
Contents of auto.master:
/- auto.direct
/home auto.home
Contents of auto.direct:
/net/user -rw fileserver:
Contents of auto.home:
* -rw :/net/user/&
Expected behavior: As described above.
Observed behavior: Bind mounts fails with the package autofs5_
However, everything works as expected if using the compile option
DISABLE_
and building adapted autofs5 packages.
This is the resulting automount:
$ automount -V
Linux automount version 5.0.4
Directories:
config dir: /etc/default
maps dir: /etc
modules dir: /usr/lib/autofs
Compile options:
DISABLE_
WITH_HESIOD WITH_LDAP WITH_SASL LIBXML2_WORKAROUND
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Related branches
description: | updated |
Changed in autofs (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Did this work with previous versions of Ubuntu ?