Steffen Grunewald wrote:

Richard Ems wrote:

Steffen Grunewald wrote:


filesystem.) Unfortunately except Debian no major distribution uses
autofs-4, all are stuck with 3.something :-(

This isn't really true.

The SuSE Linux distribution comes with autofs version 3 installed
(package autofs), but autofs version 4 is also there (package autofs4).
You only have to deinstall package autofs, install autofs4 and edit
/etc/modules.conf to alias autofs to autofs4 (a commented entry is
already there!).
If autofs is already loaded as a module (lsmod) do a "rmmod autofs" and
"rcautofs restart" and voila, autofs4 is working.
This is true for SuSE 8.1, 8.0 and earlier versions also.

Are you talking about kernel autofs-4 support (which is also in RedHat
7.2+, perhaps earlier) or about autofs-4 user-space utilities?

If the automounter doesn't support -4, it still can work together with
the autofs4 module (and vice versa BTW)... One would need autofs-4 in
user space

I'm talking about both of them, user space tools (autofs4 rpm package) and the autofs4 loadable kernel module. Both of them are in the SuSE distros and I'm using both of them for a small net with about 10 computers automounting /home's and /tmp's and /usr/local's and /opt's using autofs version 4 on all of them.

So, autofs version 4 does work on SuSE, a major Linux distribution. :-)

Richard

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