autofs auto.master change

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Wed Sep 22 21:46:02 UTC 2004


On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 08:35:32AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Since I've taken over the package, the main pain points I've seen are with
> using the Linux automounter in mixed environments.  Customers expect it to
> operate in the same manner as the Sun automounter.  This change was
> intended to bring the Linux automounter semantically closer to the
> bahaviour of the Sun automounter.  Since you are having problems with it, I
> will revert the change until such time as I implement the +auto_master
> syntax in the master map.  Is this an acceptable solution?  I'd prefer to
> not add another tunable to /etc/sysconfig/autofs, but I will if I must.

I'm happy so long as the default behaviour doesn't change.  Having a
tunable to configure it to behave like Solaris seems reasonable to me,
FWIW.

joe





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