Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why the hell is it doing a mkdir in the first place? I think the problems it is solving are these: (1) What happens if "/" is _not_ exported? (2) What happens if some intermediate directory (say "/usr") is not accessible? In the first case, the automounter just makes "usr" and "usr/src", say, in the autofs filesystem, and then mounts server:/usr/src on that. In the second case, the automounter relies on NFS letting it make intervening directories it couldn't otherwise access to span the gap between "/" and "src". David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html