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| autofs-5.0.0 | |
| ============ | |
| Differences between version 4 and version 5. | |
| - Master map is now read and parsed by the `automount' daemon | |
| - the parameters for the `automount' daemon are now very different. | |
| See automount(8). | |
| - The master map default is "auto.master" and nsswitch is used to | |
| locate it. The line "+auto.master" has been added to the default | |
| installed "/etc/auto.master" to ensure that those using NIS will | |
| still find their master map. This is in line with other industry | |
| automount implementations. The name of the default master map can | |
| be overridden by setting the MASTER_MAP_NAME configuration variable. | |
| - The `automount' daemon is now a multi-threaded application and so | |
| appears as a single process (unless a thread process display option | |
| is used). | |
| - `autofs' filesystem mounts only appear in /proc/mounts and not | |
| /etc/mtab. If you have a large number of entries in a direct mount | |
| map and link /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts you may see performance | |
| degradation. | |
| - `autofs' version 5.0.0 will refuse to run if it cannot find an | |
| autofs4 kernel module that supports protocol version 5.00 or above. | |
| - mount options present in the master map are accumulated by default | |
| which is different to the behavior of some other autofs | |
| implementations. A configuration option is available to change this | |
| behavior if required. | |
| New in 5.0.0 is: | |
| - improved direct mount map support | |
| - single level map entries now work as expected. | |
| - top level directory of direct mount hierarchy no longer obscures | |
| directory tree below. | |
| - `+' map inclusion | |
| - maps preceded by a `+' in file maps may now be included inline. | |
| - implemented for the master map and mount maps. | |
| - added nsswitch map source support | |
| - is now used to locate maps if no map source is given in their | |
| specification. | |
| - is used for both master map and mount maps. | |
| - rewrote multi-mount map code | |
| - multi-mount map entry offsets now mount and expire independently | |
| instead of having to mount and umount all offset entries at once. | |
| - added LDAP encryption and authentication support | |
| - needs to be enabled using a configure option. | |
| - a configuration file specifies whether encryption and authentication | |
| is to be used (see INSTALL and auto.master(5) for more information). | |
| - improved shutdown and restart | |
| - needs to be enabled using a configure option. | |
| - see INSTALL for more information. | |
| - a "hosts" map module has been added | |
| - an entry like "/net -hosts" is now understood and uses the new | |
| multi-mount semantics for lazy mount/umount of exports from the host. | |
| - the implementation is quite simple minded at this stage and will need | |
| refinement. It just iterates through the host table and adds any host | |
| names it finds to the internal map. | |
| Things not yet done | |
| =================== | |
| - I have no way to test the Gentoo setup here anymore so it is unlikely | |
| to work. Patches from anyone who needs this are welcome. | |
| Ian | |