Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 09:07, Hauke Busch wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>thank you for your response.
>>I have the famous
>>alias autofs autofs4
>>line in my /etc/modules.conf.
>>The kernel protocol version 3 could well be the problem.
>>I am using a SUSE distro 7.1 and 7.3. Maybe because they include everything
>>kernel-possible as a module, the version 3 instead of 4 of autofs is loaded.
>>Any idea how to change this (without recompiling the kernel)?
>>
>
> If they have autofs 3 compiled into the kernel there's not a lot you
> can do about it. What does lsmod and "cat /proc/filesystems" say?
>
Actually you can -- you can change the filesystem name from "autofs" to
"autofs4" in the autofs4 code and compile autofs4 as a module.
This is the way things *should* have worked. This is why trying to
implement pseudo-compatibility is usually a bad idea.
-hpa
