On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:23 +0000, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
Hans de Goede wrote:
> Then we need to also teach autofs to start these services on demand.
> Having all the daemons on for the 1% of Linux users who use NFS (esp on
> things like laptops) is not the answer. We are moving more and more to a
> system where Linux adjusts dynamically to its environment (think
> NetworkManager, think device hot plugging, etc.)
Then please make sure you do this before making tiny optimisations.
I suspect it will be hard as autofs is partly in the kernel. You'd need to
ask an autofs expert whether this is possible without serious redesign.
IMO, the
solution is to have bootup (network-) profiles to conditionally
configure "starting up" services depending upon what the user demanded
during boot up.