--- wikisrc/projects/project/new-automounter.mdwn 2016/08/26 07:50:59 1.2 +++ wikisrc/projects/project/new-automounter.mdwn 2019/12/14 07:45:06 1.10 @@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ title="New automounter" contact=""" -[tech-kern](mailto:tech-kern@NetBSD.org), -[tech-net](mailto:tech-net@NetBSD.org) +[tech-kern](mailto:tech-kern@NetBSD.org) """ mentors=""" @@ -13,6 +12,7 @@ mentors=""" category="filesystems" difficulty="medium" duration="3 months" +done_by="Tomohiro Kusumi <> (a port from DragonFlyBSD which was a port from FreeBSD)" description=""" NetBSD currently uses amd for automatically mounting (network) file systems. This software package implements an automounter file system as a userland NFS daemon. While this generally works it has major drawbacks: @@ -34,7 +34,12 @@ compatible. (One could also write a new like a dominant strategy.) Another possible approach is a new userland daemon using puffs. + +Note that automount configuration is a complex and largely unsolved +problem. While it's desirable to be compatible with existing +automounter configuration (because often organizations like to +distribute automounter maps through NIS or other facilities) it's also +desirable to have a simple, comprehensible, and cogent configuration +scheme and these desires are rather at odds. """ ]] - -[[!tag gsoc]]