Re: [autofs] autofs and namespaces

[Ian Kent]

Hi Tim,

Fact is that I am just now starting to look at 2.6 and the issues relating 
to it wrt autofs.

Perhaps you (or someone else) could help by giving me a 5 cent tour of the 
issues as you see them.

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Tim Hockin wrote:

> For lack of clear insight into this, I thought I might put this out for 
> opinions.
> 
> We're examining autofs and issues customers are having with it.  One of 
> the issues that came up during discussions of things we can do is 
> namespaces.

Customers are having trouble with it.

One of them would be me.

As you have seen on the autofs list I have been working to improve Sun 
<-> Linux automount integration for some time now and while I don't have a 
complete solution I have made significant progress, in an operational 
sense.

With luck and effort I expect to have a release available soonish.

> 
> Does anyone have any ideas how namespaces and autofs ought to play 
> together?  There are some obvious answers, but it seems to me that they 
> might not be correct.

This sounds very interesting but I am deep into getting an operational 
release for the 2.4 kernel right now. Anything I can do, at least for a 
while, will be a cursory survey.

> 
> Anyone out there want to throw some ideas out?  We can just ignore it, 
> but that isn't exactly nice.  What we really need is some guidance on 
> what kind of sematics are "correct".

Don't want to ignore it but ....

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