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From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Using AMD with NFS Mounts
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>>>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:15:35 -0700, Tim Gustafson said:
> 
> > Note that amd mounts the filesystem in a hidden directory (named by the fs
> > option) and makes a symlink to it from the directory named in amd.conf.  You
> > shouldn't set fs to the directory named in amd.conf.
> 
> I'm not using the symlinks option; I've specified "autofs_use_lofs =
> yes" to mount the directories in-place.  I don't want AMD's normal
> symlink structure because I want all the mounts to behave the same way
> as the Linux/Mac/Sun machines do.

AFAIK, you can't avoid the symlinks for nfs mounts (it only affects local
type:=link mounts).  Also, autofs (and hence autofs_use_lofs) isn't
implemented on FreeBSD (it only works in conjunction with autofs on Linux and
Solaris).

__Martin