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From: Greg Bradner <gregb@rhythm.com>
Subject: Re: running out of mount points
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:07:29 -0800
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I was hoping there would have been something in the configuration.  
Right now I use AMD on my mailhost because it understands that it has 
the server mounted and just links to the mount without creating another 
mount point.

Wouldn't that be more desirable?


> Greg Bradner wrote:
>
>> I wanted to repost this plea. I am really in a bind and could use 
>> some help. I need to mount these users on the mail server.
>> BTW: this is with autofs 4.1.0
>>
> This has been discussed various times on this mailing list and is a 
> known limitation in 2.4 / 2.6.   In 2.4, you can patch your kernel 
> using something similar to:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/linux-2.4.19-pre7-unmaj.diff
>
> HTH,
>