Re: automount points become files

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
21 Nov 1998 00:41:26 GMT

Followup to: <19981120094948.16633.qmail@findmail.com>
By author: "Carl Page" <carlp@findmail.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'm running kernel 2.0.35 and have a problem where an ls of my
> automount directory plainly shows my hard-mounted file systems as
> text files rather than directories. Catting the mount points shows
> they are in fact single email messages of the type my filesystem
> contains (though usually in large mbox files rather than single
> message per file.)
>

This would have to be an NFS problem; there is nothing autofs can do
that would cause anything remotely close to this.

-hpa

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