On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 10:17 -0800, ron minnich wrote: > But this need for an automounter has not really existed for probably > 17 years or so ... NFS servers are pretty reliable in many cases. It > is interesting to see the use case for automoiuters change.
Right. I'm actually too young to be able to witness that original use case. My personal affection for automounter comes from the fact that it makes things "lazy" for me. And that property has applications starting from /media/floppy all the way to not explicitly mounting 200000 individual NFS servers, yet being able to always get each and every one of them by simply doing cd /net/<machine name>. In Plan9 land you don't need automounter to deal with /media/floppy. But cd /net/<machine name> is not there. At least not by default. Thanks, Roman.
