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

[Ian Kent <raven _at_ xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Ian Kent wrote:

Oh! This should have related to the comments about removing autofs from
the kernel.

Sorry about the confusion.

> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote:
>
> >
> > This is a good example of why this stuff should probably be merged into
> > VFS,  autofs4 has yet to be updated to use this lock.  This comes with
> > the decision to a) no longer support it as a module, only built in, or
> > b) make vfsmount_lock accessible to modules.
>
> Please don't say it this way.
>
> A new implementation may mean current autofs becomes depricated but
> this is a deprecation process, not a slash and burn, and needs to be
> managed.
>


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