> On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > > 3) Enhancement request to provide "hosts" mapping.
> >
> > Won't happen any time soon.
>
> any remote chance that Sun (the LI member guys that are talking about
> opening up sources to Sloaris and Sparc CPUs) will contribute some code
> and effort to that cause if we ask them? automounting in a
> sun-compatable way (or lack of it) is a big show stopper for integrating
> Linux workstations in large corporations right now :-(
Hey, that's what we do here. Transmeta share the same maps between
Suns and Linux boxen.
> and as a side question: will the current developers of autofs welcome
> such help?
Given the quality of the Sun autofs implementation that I've come
across, my inclination is "thanks, but no thanks." The dentry system
makes the Linux VFS so fundamentally different from any other Unix it
doesn't make much sense, anyway.
> (I hope no one here considers this a flame bait, my concerns are purely
> for the functionality of the workstations I administrate)
