On Wed, 19 May 2004, Michael Blandford wrote:

> >Under older versions of autofs, changes in file maps are automatically
> >picked up by the automount daemons.  I can just push out a new set of
> >maps and they are used without tickling the daemons at all; the next
> >time the filesystem is mounted, the new entry is used.  That doesn't
> >seem to work now (under 4.1.2) and I'm wondering if this is expected
> >behavior.
> >  
> >
> This is a known issue with the 4.1.x version.  It came as a side effect 
> of ghosting.
> 
> Take a look at the mailing list for roughly the last 4 weeks.  It has 
> been a heavily discussed item.
> 
> Ian and others are working on a solution.

Yes. I've been giving it some thought and reading over the recent posts. 
After haveing another read and think, I'll post a description of my 
recommended (read easyiest for me to implement) approach to this, 
hopefully tonight.

It's to be the first thing I implement for 4.1.4 (along with the other 
"first to implement" things on the list .... ).

Ian

_______________________________________________
autofs mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs

Reply via email to