On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 07/27/2011 11:43 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > On 07/27/2011 01:23 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 07:07 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > >>> We track autofs issues for fedora, upstream and RHEL and seems to work well in > >>> the field. > >>> > >>> What specifically does systemd do that autofs does not do without it? > >> I don't know if there is anything, but it's neat to get something like > >> this 'free' with systemd, without having to add any other package. > > > > It is fine for really simple use cases, but the complexity of what autofs does > > for large deployments is huge.... > > > > I don't know enough about how systemd does the automount support, it might be > > leveraging autofs? > > It appears to use the kernel autofs support but replaces the userspace daemon > (and replaces the traditional automounter map file format with system.automount > unit files). NB they're not mutually exclusive. You can run the regular autofs userspace daemon at the same time as systemd. Systemd will look after any mount points in its unit files, while autofs will look after the mount points from the traditional /etc/auto.master files. They're both just leveraging the same kernel API for automounting. Also systemd is only doing direct autofs mounts, if you want indirect autofs mounts then the regular automount is the one to use. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
