Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:17:48 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is amd automount still supported in 13.0 or not? Message-ID: <893EB073-5AEA-41D6-AEC6-89AC9CFE38AC@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20200309172637.GB83139@rancor.immure.com> References: <20200203232333.GA37109@rancor.immure.com> <20200204.085435.139942824021996563.yasu@utahime.org> <20200204154650.GA39757@rancor.immure.com> <20200204161505.GN1309@albert.catwhisker.org> <20200308172301.GF59792@rancor.immure.com> <CAPyFy2B_6DvsPeQf47kOSWMkz%2B5C3CGN=EtraOFccPLEnJT5yA@mail.gmail.com> <23042BDF-0E61-4AF1-A95F-E8134D705A42@cschubert.com> <20200309172637.GB83139@rancor.immure.com>
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> On 9 Mar 2020, at 19:26, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote: >=20 > On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 08:35:58AM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: >> On March 9, 2020 7:49:34 AM PDT, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 at 13:23, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote: >>>>=20 >>>> Thanks for the tip! That worked for me. I guess from reading the >>> documentation >>>> I didn't pick up on staying with the symlinks and simply changing >>> host to net. >>>=20 >>> Glad it's working for you! Is there anything else that you found >>> tricky or surprising in migrating? Perhaps we could produce a >>> quick-reference transition guide. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>=20 >> /net and indirect maps should be simple conversations. Direct maps = may or may not be easy. Autofs doesn't support nested direct maps like = amd does. You may need to mount elsewhere or use /net with symlinks. >>=20 >> We do have a port as well. The port will be retired after a = reasonable amount of time to allow people to convert. Amd upstream has = told me he no longer supports amd. His advice is to use autofs. >=20 > Yes, and I considered installing the amd port but that just seemed = like I'd be postponing > the inevitable. Since I had a simple use case of just using symlinks = to about four of my > remote filesystems, switching from using the /host symlink to the /net = symlink was pretty > easy. >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Bob Willcox | It's possible that the whole purpose of your life is = to > bob@immure.com <mailto:bob@immure.com> | serve as a warning to others. > Austin, TX | > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org> = mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current = <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org = <mailto:freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>=E2=80=9D short version: www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danny/autofs.py = <http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danny/autofs.py>; is a python script that = converts old hesiod based am-utils maps to autofs and has been in used for several years now. long version: we have been using amd (later am-utils) since sunos days, when we moved = to BSD, there was no NIS support, so we switched to hesiod (clever move then since we were all the time = getting =E2=80=99NIS server not responding=E2=80=99) with am-utils we had some issues, so when autofs finally made it to = Linux, and then to FreeBSD, it has been very solid indeed!=20 BTW, autofs is heavily used here, for home directories, binaries etc. my 2cents. danny
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