Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> * Autofs5 instead of autofs4?
>>
>>   autofs5 is a complete rewrite, 
>
>>   moving autofs from kernel to userland. 
>
> Uhm, I cannot remember having said that ;-)

That's what I understood - which means I did not understand you
completely ;-(

> autofs5 of course keeps the two component structure: User space daemon and 
> kernel module. The Version 5 is related only to the user space daemon, the 
> autofs4 kernel module is still required.

Thanks for the clarification.

>
>>   It complies with other technologies, e.g. automounter from
>>   Sun, and therefore solves many open feature requests.  Existing setup
>>   will continue to work.
>
> Default setup will work out of the box. 
> I forgot to mention that current Suse quirks (separating maptype and map-name 
> by space instead of colon) which do not comply with the official configuration 
> syntax of master maps will not work. But this is minor and will be documented.

Hope that this will not cause problems, let's go ahead,

Andreas
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