From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 24 17:52:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8D437B65E for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id ABE211360E; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:52:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:52:22 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber To: Jim Pirzyk Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AutoFS on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001024205222.A99340@peitho.fxp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Faulhaber , Jim Pirzyk , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <00102417462400.00469@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00102417462400.00469@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:24:06PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message