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Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

anyone have a config for amd to automount home dirs? off redundant hostnames?
in amd, when fileserver:/exports/[export1] is automounted, the files/dirs in [export1] are accessable but not viewable in a "ls" Any way to change this? 

ex:
	automount fileserver:/exports/dir1 to
		/mnt/dir1
	ls /mnt/dir1 ==> no files shown
	cd /mnt/dir1/somedir and ls
		works fine

	mount fileserver:/exports/dir1 /mnt/dir1
	ls /mnt/dir1 ==> shows somedir
	cd /mnt/dir1/somedir and ls
		works fine

Alvin Oga wrote:

hi ya robert



on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:07:41PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote about autofs vs amd:  Is there a preference?:



I'm looking at my automount situation and wondering.  Is one going
away?  Which is the "way to go" for automounting, amd or autofs?



autofs vs amd   is like tinydns vs bind  or  exim vs sendmail
( its does it do the minimum you need or is it loaded w/ unused features

one thing that both is missing is "multi-homed servers"
	if www1.foo.com is down, than it uses www2.foo.com or www3.foo.com
	but at least one can do all that in other tools

	its more critical for your home/user's servers on your local lan
use autofs ... simple answer 
c ya
alvin
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