Automount to root

Question

Aside from naming hosts badly and causing root directtory conflicts, is there any reason that the /etc/auto.master file can't contain

/    -hosts

to automount host directories at the root level?

So if I have defined hosts prod01, prod02,... then doing

ls /prod02/jobs

will automount the /jobs directory of prod02 at the root level.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '11 at 00:16

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The automounter has complete control of directories you configure it to use, so you would lose all local directories if you did that.

answered Mar 05 '11 at 00:16

geekosaur

+1 to geekosaur, that would be problem. However I do think that's how old nfs-based diskless clients used to work, right? – Phil Hollenback Mar 05 '11 at 02:46
Correct, but they also had to mount `/` specially in the kernel. – geekosaur Mar 05 '11 at 03:48

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