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From: Chris Walker <cwalker@pixar.com>
Subject: Re: is there an autofs roadmap somewhere?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:41:14 -0700
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To: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net

Hear, hear.

We use autofs with lots of mounts, and we would appreciate any
development efforts in this area.

>From Charles.Lever:
> > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Lever, Charles wrote:
> > 
> > > new to the game.
> > > 
> > > I'm wondering what features autofs developers have in mind for the 
> > > near future.
> > 
> > Charles. Why did you have to ask "that" question!
> 
> i'm working with trond to build a Linux NFS client roadmap.  our
> customers want a little more transparency into the Linux NFS client
> development plan, and i'm trying to include autofs because it is pretty
> important for them.  i actually know very little about it (so a pointer
> to a primer you like would be helpful for me).
> 
> > But what functionality do you need?
> > And what do you think would be useful?
> 
> no requests... just polling for information, trying to get more involved
> here.  thanks!
> 
> there are some naive thoughts about error recovery and threading
> architecture that could help autofs deployments in very large
> environments with lots of active mounts.  but i'd like to explore the
> current autofs more before stepping in it.
> 
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