Subject: Re: amd(8) vs. autofs
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: None <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/08/2002 19:55:06
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:21:03PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > I wonder what the technical reasons for this behavior are. Couldn't it
> > just mount the remote filesystem over its pseudo filesystem?
> 
> .oO(wow, no more /tmp_mnt in solaris!)

Yes but whatever you do, do NOT mount ~5500 directories with the Solaris
automounter. Perhaps it has gotten better since 2.5.1 (yeah, I know), but
MAN the whole machine runs sloooowwwwww.

I haven't tried it with amd.
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
           On the community of supercomputer fans:
"But what we lack in size we make up for in eccentricity." 
  from Steve Gombosi, comp.sys.super, 31 Jul 2000 11:22:43 -0600