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