Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> >>>>> "H" == H Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Scott McDermott wrote:
> >> > On the other hand, I would like to point out that THEY ARE LOCAL FILES
> >> > DAMMIT... so "interoperability" is a pretty bad argument.
> >> Agree on point of included maps...but I don't understand why you are so
> >> vehemently opposed to direct maps.
> > I'm not. It's just that they are hard as hell to implement properly.
>
> And that there are scripts floating around which will create the
> symlinks+indirectmap out of the direct map, solving 95% of the problem.
>
Yes; I'd like to integrate some such script into the autofs distribution.
Hopefully Linux 2.5 will have the VFS support needed to do direct mounts
(in autofs 5) without the performance penalties that otherwise would
ensue.
-hpa
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