Hi all, Yes, another autofs 4 release. No major changes, but there is a real bugfix for people who use local symlinks; autofs-4.0.0pre2 onwards simply deleted any symlinks immediately after creating them. Background: autofs-4 is the next major release of autofs. Its main new feature is the ability to support "tree mounts", best known as "Solaris-style /net automounting" (though the mechanism is very general). Autofs 4 is backwards and forwards compatible with autofs 3, but to use the new features you need a kernel patch for 2.2.x kernels and 2.3.x (x < 41); autofs 4 is standard in 2.3.41 onwards. News: autofs-4.0.0-pre6: Since autofs-4.0.0-pre5: ------------------------------------------- * Fix to auto.net to deal with mount options in the showmount output * Don't delete symlinks after just creating them autofs-4.0.0-pre5: Since autofs-4.0.0-pre4: ------------------------------------------- * Updated header files to match kernel; fixes some protocol version confusion. Available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/testing-v4/ More information about autofs4 at http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/autofs/ J
