Re: autofs auto.master change
==> Regarding autofs auto.master change; Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> adds:
jorton> Jeff, why has autofs been changed to only read a single auto.master
jorton> source? All my test machines rely on multiple auto.master sources
jorton> being used; they are configured to use both the site-wide NIS
jorton> auto.master along with additional local per-machine mounts defined
jorton> in /etc/auto.{master,misc}.
jorton> This will be a serious migration issue for anyone else using such a
jorton> configuration.
Since I've taken over the package, the main pain points I've seen are with
using the Linux automounter in mixed environments. Customers expect it to
operate in the same manner as the Sun automounter. This change was
intended to bring the Linux automounter semantically closer to the
bahaviour of the Sun automounter. Since you are having problems with it, I
will revert the change until such time as I implement the +auto_master
syntax in the master map. Is this an acceptable solution? I'd prefer to
not add another tunable to /etc/sysconfig/autofs, but I will if I must.
Thanks,
Jeff