On 01/21/12 03:35, Rick Macklem wrote:
O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello.
I still use the amd automounter, but I miss NFSv4 capabilities. Since
Linux seems to use a more deep in the kernel located facility, I'd
like
to ask whether FreeBSd has an alternative to the amd automounter with
NFSv4 capabilities. Sorry if I bother someone, I'm not aware of an
alternative and it maybe the case that I'm stuck with the amd ...
Cheers,
Oliver
I'm not aware of anything, but maybe someone else knows of an alternative?
On my "maybe it would be nice" list (not my "to do" list, because I'll never
get around to it) was to look at the Solaris' AutoFS. I believe Apple
switched to it and has found it worked well in Mac OSX. I suspect that there
are OpenSolaris sources for it out there under the CDDL, but I haven't even
checked that.
So, if anyone is looking for an interesting project, this might be a nice one.
(I could probably provide some help with it, if someone took it on.)
AutoFS for FreeBSD was the topic of a GSoC 2006 project and results seem
to be presented at BSDCan 2007, see:
http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/32.en.html
(The presentation has a .ppt extension, but is actually a pdf).
Despite plans, to my knowledge nothing ever happened with the results.
As far as I remember, the code is viewable in Perforce, but not (easily)
down loadable by mere mortals, and probably quite stale by now.
I concur that having a real AutoFS, integrated with NFSv4 and fully
inter operable with Linux and Solaris (and Mac OS-X ?) would be really
nice to have, especially for scientific and engineering environments.
Kind regards,
Hans Ottevanger
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