Thanks a lot for your answer. It's becoming more clear to me now. As I understand it, it gives a framework to allow the fs (cifs, nfs afs) do sub-auto-mounting right? Stef 2010/10/1 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Stef Bon <stef@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Cifs is the target filesystem, and handled by the automounter, thus the >> automounter is the initiator, not cifs. >> >> As you describe it (well it looks like it, I may not understand...) cifs is >> the initiator, and the patches to the automounter make autofs handle cifs >> requests handle better? > > CIFS has DFS referrals, by which one point in a CIFS mount can refer you to a > point in another volume, possibly on another server. ÂLinux automatically > mounts the referred volume on the directory corresponding to the referral when > you try and cross into it. > > AFS and NFS do similar things. > > David > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at Âhttp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
