Autofs with ghost option not showing wildcard mounts

Question

I have this in my autofs map: * -rw server:/share/&

I also have --ghost option enabled in my /etc/auto.master. According to the manual and to all resources and examples I found on the web this should work. However, in my case:

ls /share/ returns nothing.

I would like to profit from the --ghost option, so the tab auto-completion and GUI file browsers would show the whole directory listing under server:/share.

The OS is Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and autofs-5.0.4.

How to make the directories under /share appear? Thank you!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 08 '11 at 19:11

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What distribution or kernel version are you running? I don't see anything consistent, but at least some manual pages I see indicate that the wildcard map is not ghosted. This behavior makes some intuitive sense; the wildcard means that any valid pathname is a candidate for mounting, and so the client can't realistically present a choice of mount points without first mounting the directory.

answered Apr 08 '11 at 19:11

justarobert

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If you're not averse to direct mounts, a compromise solution might be to automount `server:/share` at `/share`. – justarobert Apr 08 '11 at 19:37
I see. Would you, please, point me to this document? Thanks! – grs Apr 11 '11 at 14:26
See, for example, the Ubuntu man page at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/automount.8.html. – justarobert Apr 11 '11 at 19:41

Autofs with ghost option not showing wildcard mounts

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