README.direct

ident $Id: README.direct,v 1.3 2004/04/03 07:14:33 raven Exp $

Direct Mounts
=============

autofs understands direct mount maps for the file, NIS and
ldap maps only.

Direct maps are point specific, non-uniform mount points.

The key in a direct map is a full pathname instead of the last
component of a path as found in an indirect map.

The key used in the master map to signal the automounter that
the map is a direct map is always /-.

For example if we were using NIS we might have something like
the map entries below.

In the master map:

/-	autofs.global

and in autofs.global:

/nfs/apps/mozilla	bogus:/usr/local/moxilla
/nfs/data/budgets	tiger:/usr/local/budgets
/tst/sbin		bogus:/usr/sbin

and so on.

WARNING: don't mount one direct mount within another. This does
  not work properly at the moment.

NOTE: Due to current design limitations, direct maps will take over an
  entire directory hierarchy.  What this means is, if your direct map key
  is /usr/share/bilbo, then /usr will become an automount mount point,
  mounting over the existing /usr.