> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > What I might try to do, is when parsing auto.master to replace all
> > direct mounts with a link into /.a or something, and make /.a an
> > indirect mount.
>
> We do something similar here, but we have a network of about 6 machines.
> Not that hard to maintain. In a company with say... tens of thousand
> machines, this is just unreasonable.
>
> The question is, how commited are you to making Linux easy to use out of
> the box? I understand that this isn't easy to impliment, and it's your
> baby. Right and wrong are highly subjective terms, but you get to decide
> what's right for autofs.
>
> I do, however, ask you to consider the importance of making Linux more
> usable out of the box. Sun (I don't mean to keep using Sun as an
> example, but I'm most familiar with it... and I work there...) put in the
> effort to make these features in autofs available for these reasons, and
> it has paid off remarkably well. In a properly configured environment, a
> machine can be brought up on the net and have immediata access to all of
> the shared NFS resources it needs without intervention by the system
> administrator.
>
> If this is to be a Unix platform for corporate end users as well as
> geeks and other unix proficient folks, ease of use to needs to be taken
> into consideration as well as difficulty of implimentation. Now I'm not
> saying drop everything and do it now... but please don't rule this feature
> out. It's needed...
>
IT WON'T HAPPEN. STOP BITCHING ABOUT IT.
I said I'd do the transformation above automatically -- that can
easily be done -- but true direct mounts WILL NOT HAPPEN. STOP
BUGGING ME ABOUT IT *NOW*!!!
-hpa
