[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 928 fix automount submounts

[Rob Crittenden]

Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:51:42PM +0100, Martin Kosek wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 16:56 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> There is a --parentmap option in automountmap-add-indirect. This is used
>>> to create submount maps but wasn't working at all. It now creates the
>>> proper key entry pointing to another map.
>>>
>>> See ticket https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1268 for more details
>>> and examples.
>>>
>>> rob
>>
>> Works fine. I have just one minor issue. There was one untranslatable
>> string:
>>
>> +        textui.print_plain('maps not connected to /etc/auto.master:')
>>
>> I just wonder - can automount maps contain spaces?  They are allowed in
>> our framework. I think this part would not work correctly then:
>>
>> automountinformation='-fstype=autofs ldap:%s' % map
>>
>> Martin
>>
>
> As far as automount is concerned, the maps are just filesystem names
> (that's what automounter historically used). So a space would be rare and
> unwise to use, but technically possible.

I'll ask the autofs maintainer what he thinks. I think this would blow 
up their parser as well. This is their format, not ours.

rob