Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:38:49 -0500 | From | Miguel de Icaza <> | Subject | Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited |
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> > Thid wouldn't be terribly hard to do. Well, not TERRIBLY hard. :) > > It wants to be done via user space except for rootfs though. I want to be > able to do stuff like > > mount alan_home_dir: > alan_home_dir: not found locally. > alan_home_dir: found on NFS server backupbox: > alan_home_dir: volume is password keyed > password: > > None of that is hard in user space...
This is already done by the Berkeley AMD (do not know if the Linux autofs supports something like this though).
The labels I am talking about are just supposed to be used for physical block devices attached to the host.
So, you need a combination of features: on the machine hosting alan_home_dir you use the volume labels to mount the disk in a well known location. And you use an automounter map to access this file system from the other machines on the network.
Miguel.
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