Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:34:08 -0600 | From | "Ogden, Aaron A." <> |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Hockin [mailto:thockin@hockin.org] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:48 PM > To: Ogden, Aaron A. > Cc: thockin@Sun.COM; H. Peter Anvin; autofs mailing list; > Mike Waychison; Kernel Mailing List > Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:28:59PM -0600, Ogden, Aaron A. wrote: > > Solaris there is a command called 'automount' that tells the kernel to > > re-read the automount maps, perhaps it resets the autofs subsystem in > > the kernel as well. If linux autofs had the same capability we might > > not need the daemon, but until then, having the daemon in userland is a > > good thing. > > That's more or less exactly what is proposed. >
Excellent! I haven't read through the proposal yet but I have it open in another window. :-) The detailed proposal you've written implies that Sun as a whole has given serious thought to the problem, which IMHO is how to make linux autofs work like Solaris autofs. Is Sun willing to devote man-hours to help implement the new autofs? I think Ian has done a tremendous job with autofs4 but the more minds we throw at the problem the better. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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