On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 23:18 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > I've given some thought to a change in internal design. Introducing a 
> > threaded model in fact. But having lots of processes around and a 
> > cluttered mount table need to be considered, even with the current design.
> 
> Tim Hockin and some other people at Sun are implementing an automounter
> from scratch.  I don't recall much about the design, other than that it
> seemed a bit inspired by hotplug (i.e. run a program to handle a mount/
> unmount request).  The only reaction I've seen was from HPA, who wasn't
> terribly impressed.
> 

Yes. Based on the proposal refered to there.

Additionally, they have developed a vfs expire extention to address the 
expiration requirements not covered in the original document.

Last time I asked Mike he said it was going fairly well.

They don't have clearance from Sun to release this atm so, as I said, not 
product as yet.

Ian

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