Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinri...@online.de> writes: > Hmm, "Not commonly used", don't know. First versions of autofs date back to > April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new in > Linux, > it's there for over a decade now.
At nearly 70, I can call a decade `fairly recent'. I have to beg to differ here... I don't mean your statements about when it appeared... Linux is much older than 1997... and as I said I started a little before that... At that time there were not many users at all not to mention users using automounting. I'd hazard a guess that total users was not much over 150,000 or so... just an idle guess though. The newbies like me were definitely not using it.... linux then took much more config than it does today... even on gentoo today. You could easily spend 2 or more wks getting X up... or even getting it to boot. Building your own kernel was well out of the grasp of newbies at that time. So in that atmosphere... its not true that automount was in common use.
