Sun Solaris has been doing this for a while now. Maybe autofs5 should be constructed to allow this feature? Ian's ghosting patches for autofs4 seem very stable but they don't work on all kernel versions, the autofs4 kernel source is changing too much.
-A -----Original Message----- From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [autofs] 2.4.20 autofs4 changes JW wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 10 February 2003 09:22, Ogden, Aaron A. wrote: > >>Hello Ian, >>I think the 'ghosting' feature is vital to interoperability between Linux >>and Solaris systems. > > > Does "ghosting" mean, you can still see the mountpoints when they are being > held onto by autofs, but not yet mounted? > > If that's what it is, I need it really bad - I have quite a few niewbies that > would really be helped out if they could, for example, ls /media and still > see floppy, cdrom in there. > autofs is NOT the proper tool for media! As far as "ghosting" (inode spoofing) it is highly questionable if it can be implemented at all without introducing races in the filesystem. -hpa _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
