On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Gomez, Daniel wrote: > I was wondering, now that solaris is opensource are there any plans of > importing some of the functionality found only in the solaris version > for linux?
I have looked briefly at it but I shouldn't have due to the licencing. Fortuneately it's different enough to not influence Linux autofs. > > (For example, solaris can will lookup both local file and ldap maps for > a single mount space and will allow one to override the settings for the > other, but in linux the first db location found for the particular mount > point in question is used exclusively and thus forcing you to use either > purely local file maps or ldap maps for the same name space. Thus if you > have a site wide ldap automount policy but wish to override say the > write permission for a subset of hosts through a local configuration > file you can't. I don't expect an answer for this problem, but it did > cause me to wonder raise the question above.) > Coming hopefully. First the basic functionality needs to be completed. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
