[fedfs-utils] [autofs] [PATCH] FedFS file system client support
Ian Kent
raven at themaw.net
Sun May 29 21:15:20 PDT 2011
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:39 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi-
>
> The next release of fedfs-utils will provide all necessary components
> for a Linux NFS client to participate in a FedFS domain as a file
> system client. This new utility is intended to be a part of the
> upcoming release.
>
> I'm interested in comments on this approach. Ian had suggested a new
> lookup module, but a program map looked simpler to prototype and has
> the great advantage of no dependencies between fedfs-utils and autofs.
> If program maps have some nasty problem that require the use of a
> lookup module, we can take that next step.
The only difficulty with using a program map is that to use it you need
to know the name of the of the <key> (aka. /nfs4/<key>) since, at the
moment, autofs can't enumerate program map keys.
Ian
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