Adam, RHEL 3 includes the autofs4 module, but it is provided by the "kernel-unsupported" package. Judging by bugzilla, people have been asking for support for the autofs4 daemon, but RH hasn't done anything (yet?) to include it in their distribution.
For us this is a no-brainer. If you've done enough research to find this list then you probably already know that you'll be getting quicker answers/ support for any issues than you would using the autofs3 that comes with RedHat. As for the features, there are two which autofs4 provides that necessitated us using it rather than what's provided in the distro: 1. multipath mounts 2. direct map support (at least enough for what we need) The /net (and program maps in general) is nice, but it's not a must-have for us. As for what RedHat supports with RHEL, we try to stick with what's supported, but there are situations where we have to add/change things simply because it's not available in the distribution. Autofs is just one of these cases where we're prepared to support it internally. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan.Burke Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [autofs] To autofs4 or not Hi Everyone, I have the task of convincing a team of admins that we should be using autofs4 with RH8. /net is the major reason I want to use it, but some claim RH does not support autofs4. Is this true? If so will they support it in RHE3 or a future version? Is there a list of autofs4 fixes or features over V3 somewhere I can used to better make my point? thanks, alan _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
