Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 20:10:30 schrieb Harry Putnam:
> Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinri...@online.de> writes:
> > Hmm, "Not commonly used", don't know. First versions of autofs date back
> > to April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new
> > in Linux, it's there for over a decade now.
>
> At nearly 70, I can call a decade `fairly recent'.
>
> I have to beg to differ here... I don't mean your statements about when
> it appeared...
>
> Linux is much older than 1997... and as I said I started a little
> before that... At that time there were not many users at all not to
> mention users using automounting. I'd hazard a guess that total users
> was not much over 150,000 or so... just an idle guess though.
I wouldn't even dare to guess :)
> The newbies like me were definitely not using it.... linux then took much
> more config than it does today... even on gentoo today. You could easily
> spend 2 or more wks getting X up... or even getting it to boot.
Yeah, I know. I started with Linux roughly one or two years before you did.
> Building your own kernel was well out of the grasp of newbies at that
> time.
Then there must have been two types of newbies ;)
> So in that atmosphere... its not true that automount was in common use.
As I wrote I don't know. I used it, but again I wouldn't dare to guess how
many others did.
Bye...
Dirk
