Direct maps!!

Direct maps!!

[Chip Seraphine]

I was looking in the TODO file for version 4.0 and noticed that you have 
"* direct maps?" listed for v5.  From the question mark, I assume that 
you are not sure if you wanted to implement that or not...

I just wanted to beg you to please do the support for direct maps.  My 
shop is stuck on Solaris for the simple reason that we use auto.direct 
very extensively, and migrating to Linux is too painful because of that 
one reason.  My life would be far better if direct map support is 
implemented!!!!!

Thanks....

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Chip Seraphine
Unix Administrator
TradeLink, LLC
312-264-2048
chip@trdlnk.com

Re: Direct maps!!

[raven]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Chip Seraphine wrote:

>
> I was looking in the TODO file for version 4.0 and noticed that you have "* 
> direct maps?" listed for v5.  From the question mark, I assume that you are 
> not sure if you wanted to implement that or not...
>
> I just wanted to beg you to please do the support for direct maps.  My shop 
> is stuck on Solaris for the simple reason that we use auto.direct very 
> extensively, and migrating to Linux is too painful because of that one 
> reason.  My life would be far better if direct map support is 
> implemented!!!!!

There is limited direct mount support in 4.1.

What exactly do you need?

Ian

Re: Direct maps!!

[Mike Waychison]

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Hi Chip,

Chip Seraphine wrote:
> 
> I was looking in the TODO file for version 4.0 and noticed that you have
> "* direct maps?" listed for v5.  From the question mark, I assume that
> you are not sure if you wanted to implement that or not...
> 
> I just wanted to beg you to please do the support for direct maps.  My
> shop is stuck on Solaris for the simple reason that we use auto.direct
> very extensively, and migrating to Linux is too painful because of that
> one reason.  My life would be far better if direct map support is
> implemented!!!!!

Thought I'd take this opportunity to plug autofsng.  It supports lazy
mounting and direct maps.

It still a bit beta, and lacks some of the heuristic logic available in
autofs 4.1.*.  However, the project's goal is to be a drop-in substitute
that allows %100 integration into a Solaris automount environment.

If interested, patches and tarballs are available at:

ftp://ftp-eng.cobalt.com/pub/users/ssmith/autofsng/

(home will be changing soon).

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Mike Waychison
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
1 (650) 352-5299 voice
1 (416) 202-8336 voice

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