Re: [Sheflug] Supermount and newer kernels?

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 13 Mar 2002 9:45 am, you wrote:
>
> > For 2.4.17:
> >
> > File systems  --->
> > < > Kernel automounter support
> > <*> Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)
>
> 	I might be missing something, but I get the impression that this
> option is used to automount NFS shares. Is this correct?

AFAIK yes. I don't think the kernel people (specifically Alan Cox) like 
supermount very much, and AFAIK it was never actually moved into the main 
kernel, distros like Mandrake patched it in. I think the gist of the argument 
was that supermount could be done in userspace so it would never be allowed 
in the kernel.

hmm:

will@dogfox:~/src/linux$ grep -r supermount *
drivers/ide/ide-cd.h:   This is apparently needed for supermount. */
will@dogfox:~/src/linux$

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