Re: Autofs or ivman? - ReadList.com

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Autofs or ivman?
\ Stroller (6 Jan 2008)
. \ Alan McKinnon (6 Jan 2008)
. . \ Stroller (18 Jan 2008)
. . . \ Jerry McBride (18 Jan 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Autofs or ivman?
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Jerry McBride
Date:	18 Jan 2008

On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:08:22 pm Stroller wrote:
> Sorry for taking so long to reply to this - I've been kinda busy with
> work the last few days.
>
> On 6 Jan 2008, at 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 January 2008, Stroller wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I was on #gentoo yesterday asking about autofs & someone recommended
> >> ivman instead.
> >> Which does gentoo-users think I should use?
> >
> > Dilemmas like this are best resolved by finding out what problem a
> > technology was designed to solve.
> >
> > A good example of the kind of problem autofs solves is exporting home
> > directories on a large server that has many accounts...
> >
> > ... With autofs you essentially tell the server
> > that this is user joe, it exports his home dir on the fly, creates a
> > directory /home/joe on his workstation (/home must already exist)and
> > mounts the NFS export there.
> >
> > Now, you don't appear to be doing something like that :-)
>
> Many thanks for your reply - it was quite insightful. In fact, autofs
> would be quite useful for my /mnt/video/[a...z] volumes.
>
> It makes me still wonder, however, why so many people seem to use
> autofs for /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom &c, tho'!
>
> > ... the impetus for other solutions
> > to be developed, like ivman.
>
> My concern over ivman - which looks ideal for much of what I want to
> do - is that it's not clear if it's maintained. For network mounting /
> usr/portage I guess I can just use NFS and just stick the mount in
> the clients' /etc/fstab, but ivman looks great for automounting
> portable media. As I said in my original posting [1], the state of
> ivman looks to be in a bit of a mess and I'm kinda reluctant to mess
> about with it if it's going to be obsolete in a year or two - someone
> please persuade me this isn't going to happen!! ;)
>
> Stroller.
>
>
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/192551

I use autofs for just about everything imagineable... What's the problem with
using it for removable media?

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