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Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de> writes: |
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> Hmm, "Not commonly used", don't know. First versions of autofs date back to |
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> April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new in Linux, |
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> it's there for over a decade now. |
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At nearly 70, I can call a decade `fairly recent'. |
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I have to beg to differ here... I don't mean your statements about when |
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it appeared... |
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Linux is much older than 1997... and as I said I started a little |
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before that... At that time there were not many users at all not to |
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mention users using automounting. I'd hazard a guess that total users |
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was not much over 150,000 or so... just an idle guess though. |
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The newbies like me were definitely not using it.... linux then took much |
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more config than it does today... even on gentoo today. You could easily |
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spend 2 or more wks getting X up... or even getting it to boot. |
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Building your own kernel was well out of the grasp of newbies at that |
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time. |
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So in that atmosphere... its not true that automount was in common use. |
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