Bug 201379

Summary:	net-fs/autofs-4.1.3-r7 automount "browse" option doesn't work
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	t35t0r <t35t0r>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	net-fs, robbat2
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description t35t0r 2007-12-05 16:50:26 UTC

/backup auto.backup     -intr,ro,soft,browse

The browse option doesn't do anything. Works on RHEL4 allowing one to see all available automounts even if they are not mounted. RHEL5 has autofs5 which has the DEFAULT_BROWSE_MODE="yes" option under /etc/sysconfig/autofs allowing the same functionality but of course this doesn't allow specifying browsing for some automounted dirs and not others as the "browse" option does. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put the browse option in an automount
2. reboot the system or reload autofs


Actual Results:  
/backup doesn't show all the automounts but still allows mounting if you cd into an initially "invisible" automount

Expected Results:  
/backup should show all the automounts

Comment 1 t35t0r 2007-12-05 17:21:34 UTC

actually after reboot this completely breaks the automounter. None of the automounts work:

Dec  5 11:09:43 trigger automount[5343]: >> Unsupported nfs mount option: browse
Dec  5 11:09:43 trigger automount[5343]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure server:/foo/bar/user/ on /home/user
Dec  5 11:09:43 trigger automount[5343]: failed to mount /home/user

Comment 2 t35t0r 2007-12-05 21:47:09 UTC

Resolving wontfix, see Bug#: 158449. I got autofs5 to work on my box and it works great.