on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:07:41PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote about autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?: > > > I'm looking at my automount situation and wondering. Is one going > away? Which is the "way to go" for automounting, amd or autofs?
I don't know if one is going away, but I prefer to use autofs, which uses a hybrid kernel/user space approach, while amd is purely user space (symlinks). A good description of the differences can be found in O'Reilly's "Managing NFS and NIS", Chapter 9, section "Inside the automounter". > Robert > > > :wq! > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert L. Harris | PGP Key ID: FC96D405 > > DISCLAIMER: > These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. > FYI: > perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer
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