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ZFS and the automounter

So, you have ZFS, and you create lots and lots of filesystems, all the time, any time you like.

Problem: new filesystems don't show up in /net (-hosts special automount map) once a host's /net entry has been automounted.

Solution #1: wait for OpenSolaris to gain support for client-side crossing of NFSv4 server-side mount-points.

Solution #2: replace the -hosts map with an executable automount map that generates hierarchical automount map entries based on showmount -e output.

The script is pretty simple, but there is one problem: the automounter barfs at entries longer than 4095 characters (sigh).

#!/bin/ksh

exec 2>/dev/null

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]
then
	logger -p daemon.error -t ${0##*/} "Incorrect usage by automountd!"
	exit 1
fi

entry="/ $1:/"
showmount -e $1|sort|grep '^/'|while read p junk
do
	entry="$entry $p $1:$p"
done

print "$entry"

logger -p daemon.debug -t ${0##*/} "$entry"
     

Posted at 11:30PM Apr 25, 2006 by nico in Solaris  |