Listing of bind mounted autofs shares results in error "too many symbolic links" on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Issuing the ls command on a bind mounted autofs share results in the error:
ls: cannot access directory/file: Too many levels of symbolic links

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • NOT Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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