[gentoo-user] Cascading autofs mounts

[gentoo-user] Cascading autofs mounts

[Thorsten Kampe]

Hi,

does anyone know (or have an idea about) how to achieve cascading mounts 
with autofs 5?! Basically what I would like to do is to (auto)-mount an 
iso image which lies on an (auto)-mounted smb share.

/etc/auto.master contains:
# mount_directory  map_file       options
/mnt/smb           /etc/auto/smb  --timeout=5 --ghost
/mnt/iso           /etc/auto/iso  --timeout=5 --ghost

/etc/auto/smb:
tkampe -fstype=cifs,cred=/root/cred  ://tkampe/C\$

/etc/auto/iso:
image  -fstype=iso9660,ro,loop  :/mnt/smb/tkampe/image.iso

The auto-mount of the smb share works fine. But the mount of the iso 
works only if the smb share is already mounted (via "cd 
/mnt/smb/tkampe" for instance).

What I would like to achieve is that trying to access /mnt/iso/image 
(which should be auto-mounted to /mnt/smb/tkampe/image.iso) triggers the 
auto-mount of /mnt/smb/tkampe to //tkampe/C$. But it doesn't.

Ideas?


Thorsten