Sorry for taking so long to reply to this - I've been kinda busy with
work the last few days.
On 6 Jan 2008, at 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Stroller wrote:
Hi there,
I was on #gentoo yesterday asking about autofs & someone recommended
ivman instead.
Which does gentoo-users think I should use?
Dilemmas like this are best resolved by finding out what problem a
technology was designed to solve.
A good example of the kind of problem autofs solves is exporting home
directories on a large server that has many accounts...
... With autofs you essentially tell the server
that this is user joe, it exports his home dir on the fly, creates a
directory /home/joe on his workstation (/home must already exist)and
mounts the NFS export there.
Now, you don't appear to be doing something like that :-)
Many thanks for your reply - it was quite insightful. In fact, autofs
would be quite useful for my /mnt/video/[a...z] volumes.
It makes me still wonder, however, why so many people seem to use
autofs for /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom &c, tho'!
... the impetus for other solutions
to be developed, like ivman.
My concern over ivman - which looks ideal for much of what I want to
do - is that it's not clear if it's maintained. For network mounting /
usr/portage I guess I can just use NFS and just stick the mount in
the clients' /etc/fstab, but ivman looks great for automounting
portable media. As I said in my original posting [1], the state of
ivman looks to be in a bit of a mess and I'm kinda reluctant to mess
about with it if it's going to be obsolete in a year or two - someone
please persuade me this isn't going to happen!! ;)
Stroller.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/192551
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