Bug 232855

Summary:	autofs does not map network paths consistently.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Phill Harvey-Smith <phill>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Matthias Koenig <mkoenig>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	clin, dancy
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86
OS:	Other
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Description Phill Harvey-Smith 2007-01-09 15:32:18 UTC

This bug first manefested itself under 10.1, but is still present under 10.2 (downloaded iso).

Autofs setup to automount NFS exported filesystems as in the default configuration 
under /net.

A host that only exports one filesystem, will have the path trimmed to the first directory containg sub-directories, a host exporting multiple filesystems will not.

As an example suppose machine1 exports :-

/usr/people 
/tmp

suppose machine2 exports

/usr/people

both have directories a,b,c under /usr/people

On the machine mounting the following would be visible :-

/net/machine1/tmp
/net/machine1/usr/people/a
/net/machine1/usr/people/b
/net/machine1/usr/people/c

/net/machine2/a
/net/machine2/b
/net/machine2/c

This is clearly not consistent, and I considder it a bug as previous to version 10.x the behavior was to mount using the complete path.

On investigation I managed to fix this problem by downloading the sourses for the autofsd from kernel.org and applying the autofs-4.1.4-multi-parse-fix.patch
also from kernel.org

Could this pease be addressed for future releases.

Comment 1 Ahmon Dancy 2007-01-25 01:04:52 UTC

I am also being hosed by this bug.  OpenSUSE 10.2

Comment 2 Matthias Koenig 2007-01-29 16:34:35 UTC

Due to bug #118902, this is a know issue and had been resolved with a introduced option.
However as the problem is fixed upstream, I will rather apply the multiparse patch and remove our introduced -multi option in future releases.

Comment 3 Matthias Koenig 2007-01-30 09:15:34 UTC

fixed in stable

Comment 4 Matthias Koenig 2007-05-04 07:37:54 UTC

*** Bug 268861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***