Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:52:17 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Autofs. Message-ID: <20140817145217.GB5497@pc5.home> In-Reply-To: <20140817152254.1e2786db.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <20140730071933.GA20122@pc5.home> <53F0878E.3000401@beastielabs.net> <20140817152254.1e2786db.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On 0817T1522, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:44:30 +0200 > Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net> schrieb: > > > On 07/30/14 09:19, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > > > At the link below you will find a patch that adds the new automounter. > > > The patch is against yesterdays 11.0-CURRENT. > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs-head-20140729.diff > > > > > > Slides that explain the project scope and deliverables are here: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs.pdf > > > > > > Testing is welcome. Please start with manual pages, eg. automount(8). > > > Note that you need not only to rebuild both kernel and world, but also > > > to run mergemaster, to install required /etc files. To run at startup, > > > add 'autofs_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf. > > > > > > This project is being sponsored by FreeBSD Foundation. > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > Great to see a real autofs finally coming to FreeBSD. > > > > I already did some very cursory testing on a recent 11-CURRENT system > > that I still happened to have and things with at least the /net map look > > quite OK. > > > > I could do some more extensive testing if I could use some of my > > 10-STABLE systems. I already checked that the patch applies cleanly to a > > recent 10-STABLE (modulo a few offsets) and that both buildworld and > > buildkernel succeed. Should I expect difficulties actually running your > > autofs on 10-STABLE? > > > > And do you plan support for NIS? I know NIS is quite dead and has been > > so for at least 20 years, but I still see it being used occasionally > > (probably most out of habit) and it is (still ?) available in the > > base-system. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Hans > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Is this "new" autofs of the same type and concept as the autofs used in Linux for more > than a decade now? Yes.
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