To autofs4 or not

To autofs4 or not

[Alan.Burke]

Hi Everyone,

I have the task of convincing a team of admins that we should be using
autofs4 with RH8. /net is the major reason I want to use it, but some 
claim RH
does not support autofs4. Is this true? If so will they support it in 
RHE3 or
a future version?

Is there a list of autofs4 fixes or features over V3 somewhere I can used
to better make my point?


thanks,

alan

RE: To autofs4 or not

[Rigler, Steve]

Adam,

RHEL 3 includes the autofs4 module, but it is provided by the
"kernel-unsupported" package.  Judging by bugzilla, people have
been asking for support for the autofs4 daemon, but RH hasn't
done anything (yet?) to include it in their distribution.

For us this is a no-brainer.

If you've done enough research to find this list then you 
probably already know that you'll be getting quicker answers/
support for any issues than you would using the autofs3 that
comes with RedHat.

As for the features, there are two which autofs4 provides that
necessitated us using it rather than what's provided in the
distro:

1. multipath mounts
2. direct map support (at least enough for what we need)

The /net (and program maps in general) is nice, but it's not
a must-have for us.

As for what RedHat supports with RHEL, we try to stick with what's
supported, but there are situations where we have to add/change
things simply because it's not available in the distribution.
Autofs is just one of these cases where we're prepared to support
it internally.

-Steve

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Subject: [autofs] To autofs4 or not


Hi Everyone,

I have the task of convincing a team of admins that we should be using
autofs4 with RH8. /net is the major reason I want to use it, but some 
claim RH
does not support autofs4. Is this true? If so will they support it in 
RHE3 or
a future version?

Is there a list of autofs4 fixes or features over V3 somewhere I can used
to better make my point?


thanks,

alan

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Re: To autofs4 or not

[Tom Georgoulias]

Rigler, Steve wrote:

> RHEL 3 includes the autofs4 module, but it is provided by the
> "kernel-unsupported" package.  Judging by bugzilla, people have
> been asking for support for the autofs4 daemon, but RH hasn't
> done anything (yet?) to include it in their distribution.

Judging by the recent patch submissions from Jeff Moyer at Red Hat, I'm 
guessing they're moving towards autofs4 now.  With any luck, we'll get 
good autofs4 support in RHEL sooner rather than later.

Tom
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Re: To autofs4 or not

[Jeff Moyer]

==> Regarding [autofs] To autofs4 or not; "Alan.Burke" <alan.burke@analog.com> adds:

alan.burke> Hi Everyone, I have the task of convincing a team of admins
alan.burke> that we should be using autofs4 with RH8. /net is the major
alan.burke> reason I want to use it, but some claim RH does not support
alan.burke> autofs4. Is this true? If so will they support it in RHE3 or a
alan.burke> future version?

Well, RH8 is no longer supported, I'm sure you know.  :(  I've been working
to get the autofs4 user space into RHEL 3, so it will appear in the next
update release.  RHEL 4 will _hopefully_ support autofs4 user space and
kernel module.

Cheers,

Jeff

Re: To autofs4 or not

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeff Moyer wrote:
> ==> Regarding [autofs] To autofs4 or not; "Alan.Burke" <alan.burke@analog.com> adds:
> 
> alan.burke> Hi Everyone, I have the task of convincing a team of admins
> alan.burke> that we should be using autofs4 with RH8. /net is the major
> alan.burke> reason I want to use it, but some claim RH does not support
> alan.burke> autofs4. Is this true? If so will they support it in RHE3 or a
> alan.burke> future version?
> 
> Well, RH8 is no longer supported, I'm sure you know.  :(  I've been working
> to get the autofs4 user space into RHEL 3, so it will appear in the next
> update release.  RHEL 4 will _hopefully_ support autofs4 user space and
> kernel module.
> 

For what it's worth, it seems autofs 4 has gotten stable enough, and 
autofs 3 has bitrotted enough :-/ that I'm not planning to make any more 
autofs 3 releases unless something major happens.

	-hpa