Re: autofs v4: speak now or forever hold your peace

[H. Peter Anvin]

> >> * Direct mounts.  These appear to require a significant slowdown to the
> >> entire VFS, and I do not believe this is justifiable.
> >   I disagree here... this is an compatability issue.  Whether it makes
> 
> I've been wondering about the feasability of understanding direct mounts
> in the maps, while implementing them via symlinks to an add-hoc autofs mount
> point.  It seems very doable right now with autofs v3 plus a few hacks
> (implemented via lookup_program.so).  Would that be sufficient ?

That's trivial to do, obviously.

        -hpa