Let me start by saying that I think that the breaking change #206 is something I welcome (it just arrived in our setup). In most of the places I could just remove our additional quoting. A statement like

fs   => '://fileserver.foo/Patches$'

works as expected. The first trouble I notice was with

fs   => '://fileserver.foo/latest$/CD-Images'

No quoting was applied, the generated map

latest_cdimages -fstype=cifs,vers=2.1,credentials=...   ://fileserver.foo/latest$/CD-Images

however could not be mounted. This might be a quirk of autofs in RHEL 8.10, the kernel logged:

Aug 29 11:15:11 r22lininst kernel: CIFS: VFS:  BAD_NETWORK_NAME: \\fileserver.foo\latest

The workaround I found was to quote the dollar like this:

fs   => '://fileserver.foo/latest\\$/CD-Images'

This generates:

latest_studio   -fstype=cifs,vers=2.1,credentials=...     ://fileserver.foo/latest\$/Studio

which works in practice. Note that the dollar sign wasn't a problem in the first example: the problem only seems to appear when it isn't at the end.

Now the worst case:

fs   => '://fileserver.foo/latest$/Clean Install',

Reasonably enough the generated map looks like this:

latest_cleaninstall     -fstype=cifs,vers=2.1,credentials=...       "://fileserver.foo/latest$/Clean Install"

There's a space in the path, hence surrounding quotes. I also need to escape the dollar sign though for the mount to really work. But if I do that then the generated map is:

latest_cleaninstall     -fstype=cifs,vers=2.1,credentials=...       "://fileserver.foo/latest\\\$/Clean Install"

which doesn't work. And now I'm stuck :-(

Let me add that I hate the Windows tradition to "hide" stuff by appending a trailing dollar sign. But it's the reality I find in my company...