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From: eric@ee.ualberta.ca (Eric Norum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: autonfsmount vs. filesystems mounted atop each other
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.024811.2047@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 5 Feb 91 02:48:11 GMT
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Reply-To: eric@ee.ualberta.ca (Eric Norum)
Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering
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How do I set up the `fstab' NetInfo data to handle a host with filesystems
mounted atop each other?  The situation is:
	Host machine name `bode' has one filesystem mounted on `/users' and
	another mounted on `/users/eng'.

Here's how I set up my NetInfo fstab database:
	% nidump fstab .
	bode:/usr /Net nfs rw,net 0 0 
	bode:/users /Net nfs rw,net 0 0 
	bode:/users/eng /Net nfs rw,net 0 0 

With things like this I can access everything on `bode's `/user' filesystem
by referring to (for example):
	/Net/bode/users/grad/eric/foo.ps

But `/Net/bode/users/eng' appears to be empty.

Can autonfsmount handle this sort of situation?  If so, what am I doing wrong?
-- 
Eric Norum
Dept. of Electrical Engineering      eric@ee.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada.                   phone: (403) 492-4626