Re: Linux 2.4 future

[Bryan Whitehead]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:10:40PM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:54:54AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:36, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > > `
> > >
> > > > encouraging the distros to get behind autofs4 (hint hint, redhat,
> > > > hint).
> > >
> > > I suspect you'll have a really hard time finding ANY distro that still
> > > wants to actively develop new products on a 2.4 codebase.
> >
> > Perhaps, but some rather large customers of AS2.1, would like it if
> > redhat could deliver the large outstanding automounting features for
> > their (mainly sun) environments.  Since these environments resist
> > change, upgrading a kernel to include a newer autofs4 is more likely
> > than upgrading the whole system.
>
>
> and putting a feature into 2.4.23 is going to help/change that... how ?

From a sysadmin with rather large Solaris / Linux install base I'd love 
to see a fully working autofs in 2.4. But I would loath running 2.6 on a 
much needed production system... Hacking around the junk version of 
autofs in 2.4 is a pain.

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Bryan Whitehead
SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems
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