From: Scott Mcdermott <smcdermott@questra.com>
Subject: (autofs) Re: Direct mounts on Linux
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:08:51 -0500
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Paul Smith on Mon 20/01 21:48 -0500:
> I know that am-utils doesn't support it,

hmm direct mounts? well according to the docs:

        The Linux kernels don't support Amd's direct mounts very well,
        leading to erratic behavior: shares that don't get remounted
        after the first timeout, inability to restart Amd because its
        mount points cannot be unmounted, etc. There are some kernel
        patches on the am-utils Web site, which solve these problems.

(I think this is talking about using the autofs support in beta
am-utils)

so I guess you need a patch, hmph.

> 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...

I don't agree that they are evil or that they suck.  Some mounts are
static and won't change, and just a simple mount will suffice.  What's
wrong with using a direct mount in this case (maybe /home/ or
/var/spool/mail/)? Is there a real argument against this besides "the
performance sucks when the directory gets large" (which is an admin
decision I think).  I don't really know, we don't have large enough
directories that it becomes a problem.  One other good thing about
direct mounts is that you can immediately `ls' the directory and see all
the possible entries, but this could be implemented in other ways.


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