"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > We are currently thinking about integrating linux on the desktop at
> > work. The only problem we have with autofs is its lack of support of
> > direct mounts. Is this feature going to be put into V4?
> > 
> > (A few months ago there was some discussion of features for V4, but at
> > the time direct mount wasn't of interest to me (I'm not the sysadmin,
> > just an educated user). Its a shame there isn't a HTML'ised & searchable
> > archive of this mailing-list, or is there?)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Matt Nottingham
> 
> This is planned for v4.

Will this mean you will be able to mount hostname:/ onto /net/hostname
and then hostname:/usr onto /net/hostname/usr ?

This would be really useful with the new knfsd which doesn't give
access to partitions mounted below / when / is exported. Or do you
know of some other way around this?

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