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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:53:47 +0100
From:      Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
To:        Tim Gustafson <tjg@soe.ucsc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using AMD with NFS Mounts
Message-ID:  <201208291053.q7TArlAs000409@higson.cam.lispworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAG27QgTinNfPQbn8kVocpWe5k%2BaE=CasbtNbdUdm03zbowV=FQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Tim Gustafson on Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:15:35 -0700)
References:  <CAG27QgSKtWr0gaKLO6XXO=Yp=m1bspT0iJG6J24r6u-MDk4sJw@mail.gmail.com> <201208281813.q7SIDEiJ000779@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <CAG27QgTinNfPQbn8kVocpWe5k%2BaE=CasbtNbdUdm03zbowV=FQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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



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