NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NFS

Configuring and Administering AutoFS

Chapter 2118

AutoFS mounts /export/home/howard from server basil to the local

mount point /home/howard on the NFS client. Figure 2-16 illustrates

this configuration:

Figure 2-16 Home Directories Automounted with Wildcards

To Automount Multiple Directories Simultaneously

(Hierarchical Mounts)

• Use an editor to create an entry with the following format in a direct

or indirect automounter map. (Create the map, if necessary, and add

it to the automounter master map.)

local_dir /local_subdirectory [-options]

server:remote_directory \

/local_subdirectory [-options]

server:remote_directory \ . . .

The backslash (\) characters tell AutoFS to ignore the line breaks, so

this entry is effectively all one line.

Map entries with this format cause all the remote directories on the line

to be mounted at the same time. For example, the following entry from a

direct map mounts the source code and the data files for a project at the

same time; whenever anyone requests access to either one, they are both

mounted.

/our_project /source -ro broccoli:/opt/proj1/src \

/datafiles cauliflower:/opt/proj1/samples/data

Because the directories are always mounted simultaneously, you can use

relative pathnames to move from one to another, for example,

NFS server "basil" local NFS client

/home

/howard

/home

/howard

/export

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