From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 23:01:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1511065670 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:01:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us) Received: from blade.simplesystems.org (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7918FC19 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:01:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from scooby.simplesystems.org (scooby.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.67]) by blade.simplesystems.org (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q7TN1kGk018880; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:01:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:01:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Friesenhahn X-X-Sender: bfriesen@scooby.simplesystems.org To: Rick Macklem In-Reply-To: <1825065717.1296363.1346280093679.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> Message-ID: References: <1825065717.1296363.1346280093679.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.90]); Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:01:47 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using AMD with NFS Mounts X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:01:48 -0000 On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Rick Macklem wrote: >> >> It would be more reasonable to re-use the Sun automounter code from >> Illumos which should be under CDDL license like zfs. The Sun >> automounter code is more mature than Linux automounter and has fewer >> missing features and fewer bugs. >> > I had actually thought that the Mac OS X autofs was based on the Solaris > one, but I could be incorrect? You are probably correct. I noticed that the Mac OS X Leopard autofs template configuration files were byte-for-byte identical to those on Solaris 10. I also found that the Mac OS X automounter worked fine. > with Alfred's port and there may be others I am not familiar with. I am > also not familiar with any patent issues that might exist. Talk of patents > does make me nervous, but I would hope that the CDDL'd code would be ok > to include as a loadable module.) The automounter seems rather low-tech and I can't imagine any active patents which might apply to it. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/