Greetings.
Newbie with automount. Its been a week I tried to communicate with H. Peter Anvin at hpa|at|zytor.com but never received any answer. I then found this mailing list. cachefs is not supported by Linux. In a mix Solaris/Linux environment, where NIS is provided by Solaris, many yp maps specify cachefs as the filesystem, but backfstype is set to nfs. Automount does not support backfstype. Here is a exert of an entry: .. fstype=cachefs,cachedir=<dir>,backfstype=nfs ... I changed the code and now I have a modified 4.1.3 version which tries for the filesystem defined with "fstype" and if this fails, "backfstype" is then tried. It works. My patch is not perfect though. While trying "cachefs", modprobe errors shows up in /var/log/messages. Until backfstype also fails, ideally no error message should be emitted. Maybe there is a way to test for the existance of the kernel module before actually try to load it, thus avoiding error messages. Altough I am a programmer, I do not program in C and do know pratically nothing about system calls. I would like my patch to be accepted in the main branch and that someone experienced with autofs clean it up. Please comment. I would be glade to send you the patch, but first I have to read "man patch" to figure out how to generate one. :) Its a pretty small change to the code. Best regards, Hans Deragon -- Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant Deragon Informatique inc. Open source: http://www.deragon.biz http://facil.qc.ca (Promotion du libre) mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://autopoweroff.sourceforge.net (Logiciel) _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
