>-----Original Message----- >From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:04 AM >To: Ogden, Aaron A. >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [autofs] 2.4.20 autofs4 changes > > >>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
No arguments there... but our users really need this feature. I don't think it is reasonable to expect users to navigate blindly through hundreds or thousands of auto-mounted filesystems. For home directories it is easy since the user knows her own username. For automounted data directores it becomes a big problem. I don't think any of the other commercial Unices have this feature either so it's not a 'linux' problem. It would be great to roll this feature into linux autofs though, assuming that it is fairly stable. -A _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
