Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265953AbUAFWyl (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:54:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265962AbUAFWyl (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:54:41 -0500 Received: from gate.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu ([132.183.203.69]:2535 "EHLO gate.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265953AbUAFWyh (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:54:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:53:34 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Raines To: "Ogden, Aaron A." cc: thockin@Sun.COM, "H. Peter Anvin" , autofs mailing list , Mike Waychison , Kernel Mailing List Subject: RE: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs In-Reply-To: <6AB920CC10586340BE1674976E0A991D0C6BE4@slexch2.sugarland.unocal.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 23 As another sysadmin with 300+ linux and solaris boxes, I second you sentiments exactly. As my previous post today states, I am having exactly the problem you describe with automount daemons becoming hung or unresponsive. Guess I should give 4.1.0 a try. Of course the same arguement applies to NFS server but they went ahead and moved most of that into the kernel anyway for the performance gain. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Raines email: raines@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging 149 (2301) 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 USA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/