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Date:      Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:22:54 +0200
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To:        Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] Autofs.
Message-ID:  <20140817152254.1e2786db.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <53F0878E.3000401@beastielabs.net>
References:  <20140730071933.GA20122@pc5.home> <53F0878E.3000401@beastielabs.net>

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Am Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:44:30 +0200
Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net> schrieb:

> On 07/30/14 09:19, Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a 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=3D"YES"' to /etc/rc.conf.
> >
> > This project is being sponsored by FreeBSD Foundation.
> >
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> Hi!
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> Great to see a real autofs finally coming to FreeBSD.
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> I already did some very cursory testing on a recent 11-CURRENT system=20
> that I still happened to have and things with at least the /net map look=
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> quite OK.
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> I could do some more extensive testing if I could use some of my=20
> 10-STABLE systems. I already checked that the patch applies cleanly to a=
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> recent 10-STABLE (modulo a few offsets) and that both buildworld and=20
> buildkernel succeed. Should I expect difficulties actually running your=20
> autofs on 10-STABLE?
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> And do you plan support for NIS? I know NIS is quite dead and has been=20
> so for at least 20 years, but I still see it being used occasionally=20
> (probably most out of habit) and it is (still ?) available in the=20
> base-system.
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> Kind regards,
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> Hans
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Is this "new" autofs of the same type and concept as the autofs used in Lin=
ux for more
than a decade now?

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