JW wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 August 2002 02:49 am, you wrote:
>
>>I was just wondering if autofs v4 is totaly dead, or if it is someone who
>>is actually working on it and are preparing any patches for it?
>>
>>And is there any furture plans for a v5 of autofs, or do I just have to
>>settle with how autofs is today, and realise that autofs on linux would
>>never have the same capabilities that other UNIX variants has?
>
>
> That's depressing.
>
> I wish someone would put some new life into this project.
> Peter Anvin seems to be the likely canidate.
> He has mentioned a few times that autofs5 is waiting on Viro (Al Viro?) to give him
>the hooks he needs.... presumeably in the kernel.
>
> I'm curious to know just what hooks are needed, and what their status is. Is Viro
>even working on them?
>
The hooks in particular are called "dentry traps." The availability of
dentry traps makes it possible to do autofs in a completely different
way, which solves a lot of the problems in autofs v4 with the features
autofs v3 simply could not support.
Viro is working on them -- but so he is on a gajillion other things. I
have been working with him on one other major project -- initramfs -- as
well, and there are other things he's got in flight, too.
-hpa
