On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Chris Feist wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Oh, another unrelated thing. > > > > I hope you didn't mind me jumping on the direct mounts work. > > Sure, no problem. > > > I've thought about how it could be done for so long and it was the > > original problem I wanted to fix when I first started work on autofs. > > Do you have any idea how long it may take? Let me know if there is > anything I can do to help, we've got several users who *really* want > this functionality. I would also be happy to beta test it when you're > ready.
Thanks for the offer to help. The implementation is pretty much something a single person needs to do. The code is done for all but the HUP map reread. It's a bit difficult. I can get it to mount and umount the direct mount triggers. I can get it to mount map entries. I'm working on expiring mounts now. Then there's a second pass to try and make the error checking sensible. I'll need help testing about here. Then there's the HUP signal processing. Then there's a third pass to attempt to address loose ends noticed during the development. I don't know how long it will be as I can't really tell what holdups there might be if I find hard unanticipated problems. As always getting time is a problem. Having said that, probably not much longer. A week or a little more if all goes well. There are a couple of difficulties with testing. The code is against 4.1.4 beta1. There's a kernel patch as well. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
