On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Max Matveev wrote:

> >>>>> "ian" == raven  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> 
>  ian> Colour ls will mount everything when you list an autofs
>  ian> directory and this (the mount storm on large autofs directories)
>  ian> was seen as undesirable for lazy mounting in a browsable tree.
> 
> It sounds like an attempt to fix appliction bug in the kernel - color
> ls should've used lstat(2) instead of stat(2). But if people are happy
> with such behaviour then there is no need to change it.

Yea.

Oddly, Solaris automounter seems to behave this way as well.

> 
> BTW, Greg's problem with 30 sec timeout could be because server does
> not reply - tcpdump/ethereal run on a client should confirm or refute
> this hypothesis.

Greg?

Ian

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