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Re: Automounter ?



On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Ariel Biener wrote:

> autofs is a kernel based automounter. It is faster, and usually more
> friendly than amd.

thanks Ariel and Ely for overquoting and cc:ing me too much.

indeed autofs is the automounter that's picking up more spead
lately. parts of it moved into the kernel (it was not always so) and it
is finally picking up the last few features sun automounters have which
it lacked so far (/net/hostname and such). autofs is the one compatable
with sun'd config files and therefore NIS maps exported as working on
sun machines with /home, etc.

AMD is a different automounter, it's userspace, does /net/hostname well
(not beta) but very hard to make it do /home right, and the config is
very cryptic. until now I had to use both it and autofs for the
different features they each have that the other doesn't, and it's very
weird using both at the same ime. the new autofs 4 beta seems to be
making amd obsolete.

chec out here for the latest daemon of autofs. to use some of the newer
features you may need to patch the kernel, otherwise it will still be
compatable, with the traditional set of features of v3:

http://www.linux.org.il/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/testing-v4/


Ira.



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