MDK-8.0 | was Re: [oclug] MDK and New Kernel

Johnathan Hicks thetech at folkwolf.net
Sun Apr 29 18:09:42 EDT 2001


I had a bad experience with it that earned it some bad karma in my
eyes...

Anyone care to point out the pros & cons of both supermount & autofs?

--John


Dave Edwards wrote:
> 
> Johnathan Hicks wrote:
> >
> > Supermount is evil! It "locks" your devices that have set in your fstab
> > to watch for mounting. That statement could be technically wrong since I
> > haven't touched it for a while. I use autofs which only watches and does
> > lock anything down. That's my bias opinion. ;->
> 
> ``Locks'' how?  And why is it evil?  It does make it only slightly more
> difficult to mount, say, /mnt/floppy as something other than -t vfat, but
> that's rarely a problem.
> 
> Dave.
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