On 05/02/2011 09:28 AM, Andreas Kuntzagk wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> Since I also have many nfsmounts and want to make sure that the
>>> mountpoint
>>> exist, I'd like to use require. Is there a way I can reference the
>>> name of
>>> the mountpoint in the require? Like so.
>>>
>>> mount {"test2":
>>> device => "server1:/test2",
>>> require => File[$name]
>>> }
>>
>> If you have a file resource dependent on a Mount['test2'], the require
>> attribute should be in the file resource.
>
> No, it's the other way around. The mount is depending on the existence
> of the mountpoint otherwise the mount command fails. I can write
>
> mount { "/test2":
> device => "server1:/test2",
> require => File["/test2"],
> }
>
> but to make this test default for all nfs mounts I want something like
>
> Mount { ...
> require => File[$mountpoint]
> }
>
> where $mountpoint is automatically set to the correct mountpoint of the
> current mount.
That won't work out of the box, but you can do it in a defined type:
define mount_wrapper($device,...)
mount { "$name":
device => $device,
...,
require => File["$name"]
}
}
That type will probably declare the very file resource as well.
HTH,
Felix
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