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).
I can appreciate a benefit for personal systems from systemd managing network
file system mounts since it's in a position to know when the network is up (this
has been a problem with /etc/fstab, NFS/CIFS and NetworkManger for some time)
but I'm not sure that large deployments with existing autofs infrastructures
will be so keen to make the switch.
Regards,
Bryn.