Autofs

This release supports "tree mounts", where a single key implies multiple mount points. This is particularly useful to support a universal mount point, frequently referred to (and mounted) as /net.

Unused scaffolding directories are now cleaned up if a mount doesn't complete. The rc scripts were fixed, and now include a more obvious place to put options for the daemon. The included RPM spec file now works. Adjustments were made to deal with autofs4 being in the standard 2.3 kernel.

Autofs 4 adds tree mounts, which means that autofs can manage entire trees of filesystems under the auto-mountpoint rather than single filesystems. This allows Solaris /net style functionality. Autofs 4.0.0-pre1 is the first test release of this new code, and is in the testing-v4/ directory. It also requires the kernel patches available at the same place.

This version should fix problems with local filesystems. If you are using a 2.4 series kernel, mount 2.10p (from the util-linux package) is highly recommended.

This release includes LDAP lookup, adjusts bind mounts to util-linux 2.10o and linux-2.4.0-test*, fixes race in SIGCHLD, and "missing module name" in the multimount module.