cvs commit: src/lib/libautofs Makefile libautofs.3 libautofs.c libautofs.h src/sbin/mount_autofs Makefile mount_autofs.8 mount_autofs.c src/sys/fs/autofs Makefile autofs.h autofs_util.c autofs_vfsops.c autofs_vnops.c src/share/man/man5 autofs.5 ...

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:33:13AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> [040901 01:08] wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:59:18AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > * Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des at des.no> [040831 11:10] wrote:
> > > > Alfred Perlstein <alfred at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > > >   Log:
> > > > >   Enter the autofs.
> > > > 
> > > > Ohh, shiny!  But what's it for?  The man pages are rather vague.
> > > 
> > > It's basically a better mechanism than using a loopback NFS mount
> > > for amd.  A lot quicker and a lot safer and offers better semantics.
> > > 
> > > I'll add more later, but for now check out:
> > > 
> > > http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/cinci93/full_papers/callaghan.txt
> > > 
> > And what acts as automountd, or it's not ready yet?
> 
> The newest amd works with Sun and Linux autofs, I will be working with
> them to make it support FreeBSD autofs.
> 
Just to make it clear: it's not yet possible to use autofs in FreeBSD?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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