the problem I have is that the existing but non-accessible directory breaks some applications (like here quilt). Quilt walks back up from pwd looking for a patches dir. I expect autofs created one in /suse as a side-effect of a previous quilt invocation (see above). On the next run of quilt, it finds this directory which according to
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658734
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658734#c1
--- Comment #1 from Tony Jones