Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:27:50 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: autofs for FreeBSD ?] Message-ID: <38B07F7E.B1FFF8BB@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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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
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