[CFT] Autofs.

Edward Tomasz Napierała trasz at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 30 21:53:55 UTC 2014


On 0730T1153, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at freebsd.org
> > wrote:
> 
> > At the link below you will find a patch that adds the new automounter.
> > The patch is against yesterdays 11.0-CURRENT.
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs-head-20140729.diff
> >
> > Slides that explain the project scope and deliverables are here:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs.pdf
> >
> > Testing is welcome.  Please start with manual pages, eg. automount(8).
> > Note that you need not only to rebuild both kernel and world, but also
> > to run mergemaster, to install required /etc files.  To run at startup,
> > add 'autofs_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf.
> >
> > This project is being sponsored by FreeBSD Foundation.
> >
> > This may be a silly question, but can autofs properly handle fusefs file
> systems like ntfs-3g and exfat?

Yes, it's pretty much filesystem-agnostic, except for the -hosts map,
which is NFS-specific by definition.



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