Hi, I have been using Solaris only since 2.6 and /home has always been an autofs mount point. What version of Solaris did not have /home as an autofs mount point? Or are you confusing OI with some other OS?
Mike . On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 09:51 -0400, Daniel Kjar wrote: > I am sure it has great value, why would it be there otherwise?. I just > remember installing a fresh version solaris one day and trying to > figure out why I couldn't just delete export and use /home like always. > > Therefore, in my mind I associate it with being frustrated by a "I am > sorry Dave, I can't allow you to do that" message until I figured out > what had changed. > > On 08/ 6/12 09:47 AM, James Carlson wrote: > > Daniel Kjar wrote: > >> Really? What do you call that crap in etc under auto_master and auto_home? > > Read the man pages for the automounter. Start with automount(1M). > > > > Yes, the system comes by default with that "crap," but (a) you certainly > > are under no obligation to use /export/home if you don't like it and (b) > > the mechanism that underlies it is far more general than just auto_home. > > It allows you to trigger configured mounts based on file system access, > > and handles fail-over, platform-related variable expansion, and > > directory service integration. > > > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss