On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:08:22 pm Stroller wrote: > Sorry for taking so long to reply to this - I've been kinda busy with > work the last few days. > > On 6 Jan 2008, at 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 06 January 2008, Stroller wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I was on #gentoo yesterday asking about autofs & someone recommended > >> ivman instead. > >> Which does gentoo-users think I should use? > > > > Dilemmas like this are best resolved by finding out what problem a > > technology was designed to solve. > > > > A good example of the kind of problem autofs solves is exporting home > > directories on a large server that has many accounts... > > > > ... With autofs you essentially tell the server > > that this is user joe, it exports his home dir on the fly, creates a > > directory /home/joe on his workstation (/home must already exist)and > > mounts the NFS export there. > > > > Now, you don't appear to be doing something like that :-) > > Many thanks for your reply - it was quite insightful. In fact, autofs > would be quite useful for my /mnt/video/[a...z] volumes. > > It makes me still wonder, however, why so many people seem to use > autofs for /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom &c, tho'! > > > ... the impetus for other solutions > > to be developed, like ivman. > > My concern over ivman - which looks ideal for much of what I want to > do - is that it's not clear if it's maintained. For network mounting / > usr/portage I guess I can just use NFS and just stick the mount in > the clients' /etc/fstab, but ivman looks great for automounting > portable media. As I said in my original posting [1], the state of > ivman looks to be in a bit of a mess and I'm kinda reluctant to mess > about with it if it's going to be obsolete in a year or two - someone > please persuade me this isn't going to happen!! ;) > > Stroller. > > > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/192551
I use autofs for just about everything imagineable... What's the problem with using it for removable media? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
