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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:40:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Anthony Heading <anthony@magix.com.sg>
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Subject: Re: Should mount --bind not follow symlinks?
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Anthony Heading wrote:

> Hi,
>     My automounted dirs have up till now been symlinks, where
> e.g. /opt/perl defaults to automounting /export/opt/perl/LATEST
> which is a symlink.
> 
>    This all worked OK until the 2.4(.2) automounter helpfully tries
> to mount --bind /export/opt/perl/LATEST /opt/perl

Don't mix symlinks with mounts/bindings. Too much PITA and yes, it had
been deliberately prohibited. You _really_ don't want to handle the
broken symlinks and all the realted fun - race-ridden at extreme and
useless.

In automount-like setups you can _replace_ symlinks with bindings.
No need to mix them.
							Cheers,
								Al