Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:56:50 -0800 | From | Bryan Whitehead <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4 future |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:10:40PM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote: > >>On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:54:54AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:36, Peter C. Norton wrote: >>>` >>> >>>>encouraging the distros to get behind autofs4 (hint hint, redhat, >>>>hint). >>> >>>I suspect you'll have a really hard time finding ANY distro that still >>>wants to actively develop new products on a 2.4 codebase. >> >>Perhaps, but some rather large customers of AS2.1, would like it if >>redhat could deliver the large outstanding automounting features for >>their (mainly sun) environments. Since these environments resist >>change, upgrading a kernel to include a newer autofs4 is more likely >>than upgrading the whole system. > > > and putting a feature into 2.4.23 is going to help/change that... how ?
From a sysadmin with rather large Solaris / Linux install base I'd love to see a fully working autofs in 2.4. But I would loath running 2.6 on a much needed production system... Hacking around the junk version of autofs in 2.4 is a pain.
-- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 driver@jpl.nasa.gov
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