On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 07:00:00AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 04:28:22PM +0200, Gerhard Schneider wrote:
> >>
> >> After upgrading to 6.3 we were seeing autofs segfaulting on many machines.
> >
> > "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
> >
> > First busted NIS (no broadcast NIS), then busted DRACUT (no boot from raid-0 disks), and now this?
> >
> > "What, me worry?"
> 
> As was pointed out in [1], RH gives precedence to its paying customers
> who are most likely large corporations where neither NIS nor RAID0 are
> used...


I somehow doubt that there are no paying customers who use NIS, Autofs and MD/Raid0.

Anyhow, from what I see, paying for support would be a complete waste
of money because both for paying customer and for freeloader, the products are still
broken with no fix.

To make it look even worse, the nature of NIS and Autofs breakage indicates
either a large hole in their testing procedure (I assume they do test NIS and Autofs)
or a major shift of focus away from traditional Unix (in which case NIS, Autofs & co
have de-facto become unmaintained).


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