Re: mount nfs on the fly

[Radu Brumariu <brum76@gmail.com>]

    I am using amd for over quite some time now, without much problems.
Also being an user-space tool does not mangles your whole server if it
crashes for some reason. Automount was historically broken...maybe
things have changed, I haven't look at automount for the past few years...

Radu
Cedric BRINER wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:15:30PM -0400, Radu Brumariu wrote:
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>>There are 2 well-establish packages out there for doing just that :
>>- automounter : kernel-space implementation ( Debian pacakge autofs )  (
>>it's out there since '85 I believe - blame SUN Microsystems)
>>- amd : user-space implementation ( currently the Debian package for
>>this is am-utils )
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>automounter is the perfect tool for doing this. But please do no use amd.
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