Enhanced AutoFS Administrator's Guide

Conﬁguring and Administering AutoFS

Creating a Hierarchy of AutoFS Maps

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Creating a Hierarchy of AutoFS Maps

An organization made up of many departments may want to organize a

shared automounted directory structure. In the following example, the

shared top-level directory is called /org. The /org directory contains

several subdirectories, listed in the auto_org AutoFS map. Each

department administers its own AutoFS map for its subdirectory.

The AutoFS master map needs only a single entry for /org.

# auto_master map

# Directory Map Name

/org auto_org

The auto_org map is as follows:

finance -fstype=autofs auto_finance

marketing -fstype=autofs auto_marketing

legal -fstype=autofs auto_legal

research -fstype=autofs auto_research

eng -fstype=autofs auto_eng

The engineering department’s map, auto_eng, is as follows:

releases bigiron:/export/releases

tools mickey,minnie:/export/tools

source -fstype=autofs auto_eng_source

projects -fstype=autofs auto_eng_projects

A user in the blackhole project within engineering may use the

following path:

/org/eng/projects/blackhole

Beginning with the AutoFS mount at /org, the evaluation of this path

dynamically creates additional AutoFS mounts at /org/eng and

/org/eng/projects. As AutoFS mounts are created only when needed,

changes to maps require no action to become visible at the user’s

workstation.

NOTE You need to run the automount command if you make changes to the

master map or a direct map.