From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 16:23:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAEB537BF7D for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:23:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: by digger1.defence.gov.au; id KAA00471; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:48:41 +1030 Received: from dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au(131.185.2.150) by digger1.defence.gov.au via smap (V4.2) id xmaa00164; Mon, 21 Feb 00 10:47:22 +1030 Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified [131.185.2.1]) by dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (Integralis SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:29:57 +1030 Received: from fang.dsto.defence.gov.au (fang.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.5]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id KAA28819; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:27:46 +1030 (CST) Received: from fuzz.dsto.defence.gov.au (fuzz.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.75.229]) by fang.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id KAA21634; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:27:45 +1030 (CST) Received: from dsto.defence.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fuzz.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA40582; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:27:50 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au) Message-Id: <38B07F7E.B1FFF8BB@dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:27:50 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: autofs for FreeBSD ?] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > > Matthew Thyer wrote: > > Reasons (in no particular order): > > > > - it looks yucky > > What specifically is "yucky" about it? The fact that filesystems are mounted elsewhere and then soft links are created for the mount points I am really after (Users really cant understand this). > > > - make world doesn't work when /usr/src and /usr/obj are actually > > links to /a/blah/blah > > How exactly do you have this set up? I do this all the time. Make world (with FreeBSD-CURRENT) fails for me when /usr/src and /usr/obj are soft links to /a/blah.... If I do 'normal' NFS mounts directly onto /usr/src and /usr/obj it works fine. It appears that make world expects to able to use relative paths to cross from /usr/src into /usr/obj. > > > - it makes FreeBSD look quite primitive in comparison to Solaris > > (the competitor in my workplace). > > Primitive in what way? amd (which is not strictly a freebsd product btw) > does more things than autofs is capable of. Just the whole issue of the filesystem being mounted somewhere other than where you're actually after. > I regularly use both, and there are features of both that I like and > dislike. However I can't help thinking that your argument here boils down > to, "I want what I like and am used to, don't bother me with new things." > > Doug > -- > "Welcome to the desert of the real." > > - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury PO Box 1500 Salisbury South Australia 5108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message