Re: tlug: amd

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 11 May 1998, Klaus Kudielka wrote:

> Martos-Riano wrote:
> > I thought automounting was to add a line at /etc/fstab with the same options
> > used with the command mount. are there other orthodox methods?
> 
> Automounting means to mount volumes automatically, triggered by accessing
> special directories, i.e. the places where you want to see the volumes mounted.
> Very popular is the amd configuration for NFS, /net/<hostname>/<exported path>.
> So you just cd into that directory and have it mounted automagically. When no
> process is accessing the volume anymore, it is unmounted after a certain period.
> Very convenient.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't know how to tell amd to use the iso9660 FS type. It might
> be necessary to have a look at the source. But, AFAIK, the 2.1 kernel has
> autmounting support built-in (with help of a user-level daemon). So, I expect
> the "dinosaur" amd to be replaced by that combination in the future. It still
> runs on my machine (2.0.33), though :-)

if you're referring to autofs, that also works with 2.0.33 ...

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