Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Robert Thurlow <robert.thurlow at sun.com> wrote:
> 
>> No.  The point [of the follow-on NFS case] is to move the
>> automounter-based namespace processing to the server, by
>> use of referrals.  The symlinks will not be usable unless
>> the key they carry can be looked up in some kind of
>> infrastructure, e.g. an LDAP server.  If you use the
>> automounter, you rely on other systems data correctness
>> in a comparable way.
> 
> Do you see a benefit from replacing technology that is known since more than 
> 20 
> years by something that does not yet have even test users?

Absolutely.

Rob T

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