On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:27:14 +0800 (WST), Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I would like to raise the autofs v4 maintainer question again.
> >
> > This package has not been actively maintained by Jeremy for a long time
> > now and so I would like to take on the role of maintainer. I have mailed
> > Jeremy to discuss this but have had no reply so I am appealing to the list
> > for support.
> >
> > I have been working on v4 for the last couple of years and have managed to
> > implement some important improvements. These are the ability of the daemon
> > to understand direct mount maps for file and NIS sources (with LDAP to
> > come soon) and browseable autofs directory structure (aka ghosting with late
> > mounting).
>
> You're talking about the "package" which (at least in my view) is the
> automount userspace daemon, but from the list above it results that
> you've also been modifying the kernel code, correct? In that case, you
> should talk to HPA, since your new features would probably warrant
> calling it autofs v5...
Correct. I am talking about the userspace daemon but see below.
As far as the kernel module is concerned there is an autofs4 module. Last
time this was raised on the list HPA distanced himself from this code as
he has some concerns about it's implementation. Please correct me if I am
wrong Peter. I have modified the kernel code that is associated with
autofs 4 only while striving to maintain compatability with v3 and the
existing v4 user space daemons. This product is imtimately related to its
kernel module and so anyone wanting to maintain the daemon code should
have the oppertunity to maintain the corresponding kernel module as well.
>
> Anyway, more activity on this front would be very welcome, IMHO. It's
> this perceived lack of maintainership that has caused the leading distro
> to avoid autofs v4, even after more than 2 years from its official
> kernel integration.
Thanks for your support.
Yes the package has never lost its pre10 label.
>
> Ion
>
>
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