Thus spoke Michael Newlyn Blake on 22-Feb-99 :
>> * Direct mounts. These appear to require a significant slowdown to the
>> entire VFS, and I do not believe this is justifiable.
>
> <OPINIONATED WHINING>
>
> I disagree here... this is an compatability issue. Whether it makes
> sense or not, most other implimentations of autofs support this and people
> take it for granted. People will continue to see the Linux implimentation
> of autofs as buggy or a cheap hack until features like this are taken
> seriously. Now that doesn't mean that you should necessarily impliment it
> right away, or drop everything to get it working, but don't dismiss it.
> It's important. Take your time and get it right, but write it off.
>
I totally agree. A daemon is a service program which should be able to be
started and stopped like any other service program by the system administator.
Especially under Linux, which is one of most stable operation systems I worked
with, it would help to design daemons in a coherent service friendly manner.
Maybe it is just me, but it always hurts me, if I have to reboot a machines,
just because I scewed it up so much that no clean simple kills will help any
more.
Frithjof
"If you see someone without a smile, give him one of yours"
Frithjof Anders
Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik
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