From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 25 1:38:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.dante.org.uk (alpha.dante.org.uk [193.63.211.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF6437B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from theta.dante.org.uk ([193.63.211.7]) by alpha.dante.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #4) id 13oM3a-0002Sp-00; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:37:10 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dante.org.uk) by theta.dante.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #4) id 13oM3Z-0002NZ-00; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:37:09 +0100 Message-ID: <39F69BB5.7861C480@dante.org.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:37:09 +0100 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: Delivery of Advanced Networking Service to Europe Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rbg@ipperformance.com Cc: jedgar@fxp.org, Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AutoFS on FreeBSD References: <00102417462400.00469@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com> <20001024205222.A99340@peitho.fxp.org> <20001024.201203.23008724.rbg@ipperformance.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG rbg@ipperformance.com wrote: > No, I think he means the kernel VFS layer based AutoFS... ala SUN > which was ported to AIX and I'm sure a bunch more platforms.. > Besides of shell's uglish look of paths resolved from symbolic links created by AMD (like /.a/net/my_server/home/joy as my home directory in bash on my workstation), what is the advantage of doing this in kernel? -- * * Konstantin Chuguev - Application Engineer * * Francis House, 112 Hills Road * Cambridge CB2 1PQ, United Kingdom D A N T E WWW: http://www.dante.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message