Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs

[Ian Kent]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote:

>
> This is a good example of why this stuff should probably be merged into
> VFS,  autofs4 has yet to be updated to use this lock.  This comes with
> the decision to a) no longer support it as a module, only built in, or
> b) make vfsmount_lock accessible to modules.

Please don't say it this way.

A new implementation may mean current autofs becomes depricated but
this is a deprecation process, not a slash and burn, and needs to be
managed.

Ian


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