RE: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs

["Ogden, Aaron A." <aogden _at_ xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Hockin [mailto:thockin _at_ hockin.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:48 PM
> To: Ogden, Aaron A.
> Cc: thockin _at_ 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.
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