cvs commit: src/lib/libautofs Makefile libautofs.3 libautofs.c libautofs.h src/sbin/mount_autofs Makefile mount_autofs.8 mount_autofs.c src/sys/fs/autofs Makefile autofs.h autofs_util.c autofs_vfsops.c autofs_vnops.c src/share/man/man5 autofs.5 ...

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> [040901 01:08] wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:59:18AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des at des.no> [040831 11:10] wrote:
> > > Alfred Perlstein <alfred at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Enter the autofs.
> > > 
> > > Ohh, shiny!  But what's it for?  The man pages are rather vague.
> > 
> > It's basically a better mechanism than using a loopback NFS mount
> > for amd.  A lot quicker and a lot safer and offers better semantics.
> > 
> > I'll add more later, but for now check out:
> > 
> > http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/cinci93/full_papers/callaghan.txt
> > 
> And what acts as automountd, or it's not ready yet?

The newest amd works with Sun and Linux autofs, I will be working with
them to make it support FreeBSD autofs.

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