Re: [CFT] Autofs.

On 0817T1522, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Am Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:44:30 +0200
> Hans Ottevanger <hans_at_beastielabs.net> schrieb:
> 
> > On 07/30/14 09:19, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
> > > At the link below you will find a patch that adds the new automounter.
> > > The patch is against yesterdays 11.0-CURRENT.
> > >
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs-head-20140729.diff
> > >
> > > Slides that explain the project scope and deliverables are here:
> > >
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs.pdf
> > >
> > > Testing is welcome.  Please start with manual pages, eg. automount(8).
> > > Note that you need not only to rebuild both kernel and world, but also
> > > to run mergemaster, to install required /etc files.  To run at startup,
> > > add 'autofs_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf.
> > >
> > > This project is being sponsored by FreeBSD Foundation.
> > >
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Great to see a real autofs finally coming to FreeBSD.
> > 
> > I already did some very cursory testing on a recent 11-CURRENT system 
> > that I still happened to have and things with at least the /net map look 
> > quite OK.
> > 
> > I could do some more extensive testing if I could use some of my 
> > 10-STABLE systems. I already checked that the patch applies cleanly to a 
> > recent 10-STABLE (modulo a few offsets) and that both buildworld and 
> > buildkernel succeed. Should I expect difficulties actually running your 
> > autofs on 10-STABLE?
> > 
> > And do you plan support for NIS? I know NIS is quite dead and has been 
> > so for at least 20 years, but I still see it being used occasionally 
> > (probably most out of habit) and it is (still ?) available in the 
> > base-system.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Hans
> > 
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> Is this "new" autofs of the same type and concept as the autofs used in Linux for more
> than a decade now?

Yes.