On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Konstantin Chuguev wrote:
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> > No, I think he means the kernel VFS layer based AutoFS... ala SUN
> > which was ported to AIX and I'm sure a bunch more platforms..
> >
>
> Besides of shell's uglish look of paths resolved from symbolic links created by AMD
>(like
> /.a/net/my_server/home/joy as my home directory in bash on my workstation), what is
>the
> advantage of doing this in kernel?
No context switching from kernel space to user space. Lighter weight
threads (a thread in the kernel vs a fork for amd) and with in place
mounts, there is less likely for a deadlock situation to happen.
- JimP
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