From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
autofs mailing list <autofs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] autofs - update AUTOFS_EXP_LEAVES description
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:00:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <155287083538.12593.18163159677020718048.stgit@pluto.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155287082394.12593.6506084453911662450.stgit@pluto.themaw.net>
Update the description of AUTOFS_EXP_LEAVES to cover its possible
future use with amd format mount maps.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
---
Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt
index ac50b47f02bd..8fe43c97cb96 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt
@@ -262,8 +262,12 @@ up.
There is an option with indirect mounts to consider each of the leaves
that has been mounted on instead of considering the top-level names.
-This is intended for compatibility with version 4 of autofs and should
-be considered as deprecated.
+This was originally intended for compatibility with version 4 of autofs
+and should be considered as deprecated for Sun Format automount maps.
+However, it may be used again for amd format mount maps (which are
+generally indirect maps) because the amd automounter allows for the
+setting of an expire timeout for individual mounts. But there are
+some difficulties in making the needed changes for this.
When autofs considers a directory it checks the `last_used` time and
compares it with the "timeout" value set when the filesystem was
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-18 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-18 1:00 [PATCH 1/5] autofs - fix some word usage odities in autofs.txt Ian Kent
2019-03-18 1:00 ` [PATCH 2/5] autofs - update autofs.txt for strictexpire mount option Ian Kent
2019-03-18 1:00 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2019-03-18 1:00 ` [PATCH 4/5] autofs - update mount control expire desription with AUTOFS_EXP_FORCED Ian Kent
2019-03-18 1:00 ` [PATCH 5/5] autofs - add description of ignore pseudo mount option Ian Kent
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