> One thing that amd has that would be nice if autofs has is symlink
> mounts. If for instance, you have two systems, fred and barney.
> Fred exports /pebbles and /dino, while barney exports /bambam, you
> might want to have a centralized mount point for all disks:
>
> /mnt/pebbles
> /mnt/bambam
> /mnt/dino
>
> If you were on fred, /mnt/pebbles would be a symlink to /pebbles,
> /mnt/dino would be a symlink to /dino (yeah, direct mounts would be
> great, but they won't be provided), and /mnt/bambam would be
> automounted from barney. Even nicer if you could share autofs maps
> between systems like amd did (under amd, you could say if the system
> name was fred, do symlinks, otherwise do nfs mounts).
autofs does that automatically. If a mount identified as NFS is on
the local host, it will use a symlink.
-hpa
