> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Raines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:54 PM > To: Ogden, Aaron A. > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; H. Peter Anvin; autofs mailing list; > Mike Waychison; Kernel Mailing List > Subject: RE: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs > > > As another sysadmin with 300+ linux and solaris boxes, I second > you sentiments exactly. As my previous post today states, I am > having exactly the problem you describe with automount daemons > becoming hung or unresponsive. Guess I should give 4.1.0 a try. > > Of course the same arguement applies to NFS server but they went > ahead and moved most of that into the kernel anyway for the > performance gain. >
I have been working with Ian for a long time, the improvements he's made since autofs-4.0.0pre10 have been tremendous. Although the people from Sun may not agree I think autofs 4.1.0 is mostly on par with Sun's autofs, at least from a sysadmin perspective. The code is still very new but I have not been able to break it yet... unlike previous versions. :-) If you are going to use autofs on linux I would highly recommend the latest version of autofs4, in my experience nothing else will cut it if you want your linux autofs to behave like what you are used to in Solaris. This includes the browsing/ghosting feature. Go to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/ and get the latest tarball or source rpm. You can install the daemon with that but you also need to apply patches to the kernel module to get things working properly, the patches are included in the file you download. Good luck! _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
