Ogden, Aaron A. wrote:
Sun Solaris has been doing this for a while now.
The Solaris VFS is very, very different; they seem more willing to slow their VFS down for these kinds of features.

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.

Until they've been through a heavy grinder, I don't trust them. During autofs v3 development after the dcache was added I would find bugs that would show only after several days of running on a hundred heavily loaded SMP machines with a 1-second timeout. Writing race-free code is extremely hard.

-hpa


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