NFS/Autofs contending host map vs. indirect maps

[Ralph Grothe]

Hi,

after having installed the Enhanced Autofs on an 11i NFS client, I'm playing a bit with various AutoFS maps to find out which types best suite our needs.
My master map looks like this:

# cat /etc/auto_master
/net -hosts -nosuid,soft,nobrowse
/- /etc/auto_direct
/nfs /etc/auto_ansic

Because of NFS performance problems (which ususally desuade from the use of any automounter, but we have to) I downloaded Rick John's netperf sources that I want to compile via an NFS exported ANSI C compiler, in order to first meassure the NICs' throughput between NFS server and clients.
Thus I added the /nfs this indirect map:

# cat /etc/auto_ansic
ansic -nosuid bode:/opt/ansic
langtools -nosuid bode:/opt/langtools

On NFS server bode I exported those shares (containing the compiler binaries and libs)

# showmount -e bode
export list for bode:
/opt/ansic aller
/opt/langtools aller

aller is this NFS client.

However, because of the hosts map entry in the master map I still have a lingering hosts mount from before.

How can one avoid that automountd will mount the hosts map for the same share already covered by the indirect mount?

Rgd.
Ralph

[Sundar_7]

I dont think this is possible. But why would you use -hosts special map at all ? - I cannot think of any production status day-to-day use for the /net -hosts entry :-)