Re: [Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-08-18 Thread Frederik Himpe
On 18 Aug 2001 01:02:53 -0400, David Walluck wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > But overall, I *completely* agree with you. I also fail to see the > > benefit of supermount - I suppose because of "ignorance", just like you > > are :) > > Well, show me how to use it maybe

Re: [Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-08-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Pixel« am 2001-08-17 um 22:52:52 +0200 : > With autofs, you can put a very low unmounting timeout. But in that case you > loose the buffer, everytime you access a file, it must read again as it was > unmounted. Is supermount different? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.

Re: [Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-08-17 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
David Walluck wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > >>But overall, I *completely* agree with you. I also fail to see the >>benefit of supermount - I suppose because of "ignorance", just like you >>are :) >> > > Well, show me how to use it maybe? :) I know my automount tries

Re: [Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-08-17 Thread David Walluck
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: > But overall, I *completely* agree with you. I also fail to see the > benefit of supermount - I suppose because of "ignorance", just like you > are :) Well, show me how to use it maybe? :) I know my automount tries to contact and LDAP server and then

Re: [Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-08-17 Thread Joal Heagney
Pixel wrote: > > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The only issue I see, is that with autofs the mountpoints are not > > visible. That is, you go to /auto (or wherever) and do a ls, and you > > i don't really know either, but here is what i think: > > With autofs, you can put

Re: [Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-08-17 Thread Pixel
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only issue I see, is that with autofs the mountpoints are not > visible. That is, you go to /auto (or wherever) and do a ls, and you i don't really know either, but here is what i think: With autofs, you can put a very low unmounting timeout. B

Re: [Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-08-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Frederik Himpe« am 2001-08-17 um 17:10:38 +0200 : > Because supermount is not available for some time, I decided to give > autofs a try. It works great at first sight. Why in fact does Mandrake > makes so much effort in adapting supermount to the new kernels, when > autofs already works

[Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-08-17 Thread Frederik Himpe
Because supermount is not available for some time, I decided to give autofs a try. It works great at first sight. Why in fact does Mandrake makes so much effort in adapting supermount to the new kernels, when autofs already works great? Is there an important difference I don't see at this moment?

Re: [Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-05-14 Thread Tobias Marx
On 13 May 2001 21:44:45 +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > /mnt/cdrom is not visible unless mounted. It means, that such things as > completion, browsing in Konqueror (or probably any file manager for that > matter) simply do not work - /mnt appears empty. i handled this by adding a link to the m

[Cooker] supermount vs autofs

2001-05-13 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
I have tried to convert my supermount to autofs. The result was at least one disatvantage of autofs - you cannot browse mount points. I mean, in the case auto.mater: /mnt auto.mnt auto.mnt: cdrom -fstype=iso9660,... :/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom is not visible unless mounted. It means, that such thin