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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: ghost
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:40:39 -0800
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To: Hunter Matthews <thm@duke.edu>
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Hunter Matthews wrote:
> I've not seen a lot of mention of it, but I've been very happy with 
> the ghost option and autofs-4.1.0-2 here. I've tried it with both NIS 
> and LDAP fed maps (old schema) and it seems to work fine. 
> 
> For my users, I'd love to see --ghost the default in the future.

It shouldn't be the default (put it in your maps, though.)  It requires 
an expensive enumeration operation.

	-hpa