[Cbe-oss-dev] automount support

Arnd Bergmann arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com
Thu Sep 14 05:12:40 EST 2006


On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:40, William Chung wrote:
> autofs4 is supposedly backwardly compatible with autofs (v3), so I'd 
> prefer autofs4.  I hear that having only autofs4 as a module can require 
> adding the line "alias autofs autofs4" to /etc/modprobe.conf to let 
> modutils look for autofs4 when the kernel needs autofs.  I'm not sure that 
> this line is necessary though because I built a kernel with both autofs 
> and autofs4 enabled as modules and it looks like only autofs4 gets loaded, 
> without any changes to my /etc/modprobe.conf file.  Hopefully, someone 
> more experienced with autofs can give some guidance here.

Ok, I've enabled it now internally. I have just released 2.6.18-rc7-arnd13,
which doesn't have it, but the next version will.

	Arnd <><



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