> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > * Multimounts/scaffolding (/net being a special case of this).
>
> If I understand what you mean by /net, could it be done without having to
> go to a 2.3 kernel? We would like to use this to replace amd, but we need
> reliability of the kernel above all else.
Probably not. On a technical level it is a very unpleasant feature.
> The other feature we use in amd, and I think is in autofs, but I get
> conflicting stories, is symlinking. If the mount point happens to be on
> the local machine, create a symlink to the directory instead on paying the
> penalty of nfs mounting it.
autofs does that automatically.
-hpa
