From: "Paul Smith" Subject: Re: Direct mounts on Linux Date: 20 Jan 2003 21:48:28 -0500 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <15916.14776.460148.770017@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com> <20030120214134.GE1042@questra.com> Reply-To: "Paul Smith" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from zrtps0kn.nortelnetworks.com ([47.140.192.55]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18aoSv-0007la-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:48:41 -0800 To: Scott Mcdermott In-Reply-To: <20030120214134.GE1042@questra.com> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: %% Scott Mcdermott writes: sm> Paul Smith on Mon 20/01 13:02 -0500: >> I saw a note that direct mounts are not supported on Linux; is this >> true even for autofs? Or only for user-space stuff like am-utils? sm> It is true only for autofs. Of course "mount server:/path sm> /mount/point" will always work :) Well, I kind of meant automounting, so autofs and am-utils :). I know that am-utils doesn't support it, and a note in their docs seems to imply that the Linux kernel itself doesn't support it... so I was curious if autofs supported it. For example, am-utils on FreeBSD does support direct mounts IIRC. sm> Word has it that the am-utils now speaks autofs to the kernel, and sm> does support direct mounts (among other things), so one can have sm> the best of both worlds (speed and features) Interesting! sm> Now we can finally get along in a Sun environment without hacks. Well... except for direct mounts. We can all agree that they are evil and they suck, but the fact remains there are a lot of them out there and they are often hard to get rid of... sm> autofs has its own mailing list btw OK, thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs