On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No, I think he means the kernel VFS layer based AutoFS... ala SUN
> which was ported to AIX and I'm sure a bunch more platforms..
SGI and Linux too.
- JimP
>
> > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:52:22 -0400 you said:
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:24:06PM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> > > I was wondering if there is anyone working on AutoFS for FreeBSD. We
> > > currently have 4 studios with around 1000 unix systems of all kinds.
> > > Currently there are only 2 OSes that do not have autofs, FreeBSD and one
> > > that is known for its number crunching capabilties (and those are being
> > > phased out of production). Amd will not meet our needs because of the
> > > use of sym links. This is why AutoFS was written in the first place.
> > > I quote the 1993 USENIX paper on AutoFS (check
> > >
>http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/cinci93/full_papers/callaghan.txt
> > > for the full paper).
> > >
> >
> > Do you mean amd(8)?
> >
> > AMD(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual AMD(8)
> >
> > NAME
> > amd - automatically mount file systems
> >
> > ...
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> > Amd is a daemon that automatically mounts filesystems whenever a file or
> > directory within that filesystem is accessed. Filesystems are automati-
> > cally unmounted when they appear to be quiescent.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > HISTORY
> > The amd utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.
> >
> > BSD April 19, 1994 3
> >
> >
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