From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 25 8:57:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.disney.com (mail.disney.com [204.128.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB49037B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pain10.corp.disney.com (root@pain10.corp.disney.com [153.7.110.100]) by mail.disney.com (Switch-2.0.1/Switch-2.0.1) with SMTP id e9PFvfR06905 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from louie.fa.disney.com by pain.corp.disney.com with ESMTP for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:58:16 -0700 Received: from mercury.fan.fa.disney.com (mercury.fan.fa.disney.com [153.7.119.1]) by louie.fa.disney.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA10201 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:57:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com by mercury.fan.fa.disney.com; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:57:38 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk Organization: Walt Disney Feature Animation To: Konstantin Chuguev , rbg@ipperformance.com Subject: Re: AutoFS on FreeBSD Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:53:21 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: jedgar@fxp.org, Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00102417462400.00469@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com> <20001024.201203.23008724.rbg@ipperformance.com> <39F69BB5.7861C480@dante.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <39F69BB5.7861C480@dante.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00102508574004.01988@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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