On 07/04/18 10:13, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
On 6 April 2018 at 22:58, Pierre-Francois RENARD pfrenard@gmail.com wrote:
Hello guys,
with F28 I tried to use autofs and nfs.
BTW autofs: is it any particular reason why in Fedora kernels autofs support is compiled into the kernel and is not provided as loadable module?
$ cat /proc/filesystems | grep auto; echo; lsmod | grep auto nodev autofs
Yes there is a reason.
Long ago there were two autofs modules that provided the autofs file system, autofs and autofs4. So kernel module auto-loading didn't work for autofs4.
Now the autofs module has long since been removed and many times I have prepared a patch series to rename autofs4 to autofs but haven't been able to post them as something higher priority has always come up.
So yes, I need to do that, but it may also be the case that it's considered to be frequently enough used that it will continue to be compiled in.
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PS. the same is with for example ext{2..4} support.
$ cat /proc/filesystems | grep ext; echo; lsmod | grep ext ext3 ext2 ext4
Not sure about those but ext3 and ext4 are probably compiled in because they are frequently used, ext2 maybe should be a module nowadays, but not my call.
Ian