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Re: Automounter ?



On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Ely Levy wrote:


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

It's all in the documentation.

--Ariel
> doesn't that what amd suppose to do??
> at least that what I use for auto mounting things from NIS and so..
> which leads to the question what diffrent between autofs and amd
> I don't think autofs can work without amd..and i think it doesn't use
> maps..
> but am not sure 
> 
> Ely Levy
> System group
> Hebrew University 
> Jerusalem Israel
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 
> |  On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Victor Fertman wrote:
> |  
> |  > Hello,Sirs !
> |  > Will you, please, helpme to find
> |  > somethingsimilar to UNIX (Solaris)
> |  > automounter for RED HAT 6.1
> |  > or maybe there is its own ?
> |  
> |  redhat comes with autofs, similar in behavior and almost compatable with
> |  the Solaris automounter (it won't do /net/hostname type mounts, not -
> |  type mounts on the root directory, but otherwise it's compatable with
> |  automount maps over NIS). you may also want to try the new betas of
> |  autofs 4.0 available from kernel.org, or its mirror on our own
> |  FTP.linux.org.il
> |  
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