[138] in athena10
afuse automounter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Fri Mar 28 20:48:10 2008
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:47:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
cc: athena10@mit.edu
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64L.0803282010560.8594@mega-man.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
The autofs automounter has been somewhat annoying in Debathena for some
time. In particular:
- /etc/init.d/autofs stop fails with high probability if you have ever
accessed anything through a /mit path. This seems to in turn cause
openafs to fail stop more frequently than it already does.
- It's really designed to do NFS, not AFS. Consequently it Recommends
nfs-common, which results in nfs-common and portmap getting installed on
all Debathena machines.
Nelson brought to my attention afuse, a FUSE automounter, that's fairly
new (in etch and feisty, but not anything older). The /mit automounter is
almost a one-liner using it. I think that this could be a good
replacement for autofs in Debathena if it doesn't have autofs's problems.
I made a package debathena-afuse-config which should be a reasonable
replacement for debathena-autofs-config. It's running on zsr and mega-man
for testing. Some care needs to be taken in making the transition from
autofs to afuse work; I have code that seems to handle this reasonably
(i.e. your /mit switches on the next boot if autofs fails to stop), but it
probably could use refinement.
-Tim Abbott
