Hi all,
As HPA mentioned, he asked me to pull together the autofs 4 release.
Here's the first attempt: autofs-4.0.0-pre1. This is more or less
identical to the patch I previously announced, except for the version
number change.
Differences from autofs-3.1.4:
- supports automounting trees of filesystems, rather than single
filesystems
- supports scaffolding directories, for the case where the actual
mountpoint isn't at the top-level autofs directory, or where the
automounted filesystems don't provide proper mount-points
- the NFS module supports the "nosymlink" mount option flag to inhibit
the use of symlinks for (apparently) local mounts
The tree mount and scaffolding directory features require the use of
the updated kernel module which implements autofs v4 protocol. If you
don't need the new features, autofs-4.0.0 should work fine with the
standard v3 kernel module too (and I'd love people to test this). Also,
if you update the kernel module but want to continue using autofs-3.1.4,
that should work fine too.
This is an experimental test release. You should still use autofs-3.1.4
for any production system. That said, it would be great if someone puts
this version on a busy multi-user server with lots of autofs use on a
network with lots of hosts. That would really shake out bugs...
Download the full source for autofs-4.0.0-pre1 or a patch from
autofs-3.1.4 from http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/autofs
J
