Re: autofs or am-utils?

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:

> autofs has a lot of bugs filed against it, but not so many by
> am-utils.  But then, am-utils isn't in sarge!!???

one need to normalize the "data"
	- based on number of users using each app vs the
	number of bugs filed

> So, which should I use?

autofs - is the better choice for simple things...
	- it's in the kernel
	- it ez ( trivial ) to setup
	- it does simple automounting for servers things like 
		mail:/var/spool/mail
		home:/home

	- it does NOT do failover in that, if home1:/home is down,
 	it will not go find home2:/home instead

amd - older app for running automounters
	- it's everything in the kitchen sink
	- it's not as ez to setup

	- i forgot if it supported nfs failover

c ya
alvin