Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:53:21 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk>, rbg@ipperformance.com Cc: jedgar@fxp.org, Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AutoFS on FreeBSD Message-ID: <00102508574004.01988@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com> In-Reply-To: <39F69BB5.7861C480@dante.org.uk> References: <00102417462400.00469@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com> <20001024.201203.23008724.rbg@ipperformance.com> <39F69BB5.7861C480@dante.org.uk>
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > rbg@ipperformance.com wrote: > > > No, I think he means the kernel VFS layer based AutoFS... ala SUN > > which was ported to AIX and I'm sure a bunch more platforms.. > > > > Besides of shell's uglish look of paths resolved from symbolic links created by AMD (like > /.a/net/my_server/home/joy as my home directory in bash on my workstation), what is the > advantage of doing this in kernel? No context switching from kernel space to user space. Lighter weight threads (a thread in the kernel vs a fork for amd) and with in place mounts, there is less likely for a deadlock situation to happen. - JimP > > > -- > * * Konstantin Chuguev - Application Engineer > * * Francis House, 112 Hills Road > * Cambridge CB2 1PQ, United Kingdom > D A N T E WWW: http://www.dante.net -- --- @(#) $Id: dot.signature,v 1.9 2000/07/10 16:43:05 pirzyk Exp $ __o Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com ------------------------------------- _'\<,_ Senior Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Feature Animation (*)/ (*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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