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Re: afuse automounter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Fri Mar 28 23:32:36 2008
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:31:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey G Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
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debathena-afuse-config will probably conflict with
debathena-autofs-config, so that will get uninstalled; the change in
what's running will probably take effect on the next reboot.
The package name will probably change since it's not actually a config
package, which is one reason I've not uploaded it to the repository. We
should get more data before we decide what to do in the long run (I have a
vague feeling that the afuse solution has worse performance, but all
numerical tests I've done show no change). The options are basically (A)
replace debathena-autofs-config with (debathena-autofs-config |
debathena-afuse-config) everywhere (in some order), and (B) replace
debathena-autofs-config with debathena-afuse-config entirely. The
decision will probably depend on whether we can demonstrate any
performance impact or other problems with the afuse solution.
If you want to beta test, you can dpkg -i the package from
/mit/debathena/, but don't blame me if this leaves you with a
non-automatic upgrade path when we rename the package.
-Tim Abbott
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Geoffrey G Thomas wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Awesome, autofs has been annoying me for a while. Is the afuse setup in the
> standard repositories yet? aptitude update shows me an update to
> debathena-autofs-config but nothing named debathena-afuse-config (on Gutsy,
> 32-bit).
>
> If I want to switch to afuse on my laptop (either at next reboot or
> immediately; the former actually seems preferable), do I only need to wait a
> bit and aptitude install debathena-afuse-config without uninstalling
> anything?
>
> --
> Geoffrey Thomas
> geofft@mit.edu
>
