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- From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Subject: Re: Automount and direct mounts
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.211438.2464@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
- References: <Bx3H5I.7sB@csd.cri.dk> <1992Nov3.163607.19164@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 21:14:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov3.163607.19164@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:
- >
- >Otherwise, maybe you need to look at the docs some more.
- >
- >Here they are:
-
- [man page text deleted]
-
- Shouldn't this man page have been distributed with the fix(es)??? There are
- massive changes to the automounter options since the man page provided with
- AIX 3.2 .
-
- The automounter under 3.2.x has been a real headache for us. In the past 3
- months we have installed about 3 different updates, each of which was supposed
- to fix the problems (and none of which contained the new man page). We are now
- at the stage where most things work OK. The one remaining bug (that we know
- about), however, is a real problem. Our direct map entries are names in /
- (though I don't know if this actually makes any difference, and no, we can't
- change it), and using "df" causes the automounter to start mounting all 80 of
- them! Needless to say, this makes "df" useless (not to mention that you then
- have 80 more NFS mounts from all over the net!).
-
- This works just fine on our Suns. It even works on our Convexes, which are
- running a 2-year-old version of automount! We have never had any problems with
- these Convexes and automount, but here in late 1992 it has taken IBM several
- tries to even come close to getting it right. I am not impressed.
- --
- Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
-