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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
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* Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> [040901 07:44] wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:33:13AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> [040901 01:08] wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:59:18AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > > * Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> [040831 11:10] wrote:
> > > > > Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > > > >   Log:
> > > > > >   Enter the autofs.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ohh, shiny!  But what's it for?  The man pages are rather vague.
> > > > 
> > > > It's basically a better mechanism than using a loopback NFS mount
> > > > for amd.  A lot quicker and a lot safer and offers better semantics.
> > > > 
> > > > I'll add more later, but for now check out:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/cinci93/full_papers/callaghan.txt
> > > > 
> > > And what acts as automountd, or it's not ready yet?
> > 
> > The newest amd works with Sun and Linux autofs, I will be working with
> > them to make it support FreeBSD autofs.
> > 
> Just to make it clear: it's not yet possible to use autofs in FreeBSD?

I would say you can play with it, but no application written other
than what's in /usr/share/examples/autofs actually uses it.

Go ahead and compile what's in /usr/share/examples/autofs/driver/
and play around... :)

I plan on getting amd integration taken care of over the next couple
of weeks.

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- Alfred Perlstein
- Research Engineering Development Inc.
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