Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:50:59 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Autofs. Message-ID: <20140817145059.GA5497@pc5.home> In-Reply-To: <53F0878E.3000401@beastielabs.net> References: <20140730071933.GA20122@pc5.home> <53F0878E.3000401@beastielabs.net>
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On 0817T1244, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > 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? No, it should be fine. Plan is to MFC this to 10 soon, btw. > 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. It should be trivial to add, I just need someone with such setup (autofs maps in NIS) to test it against.
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