RE: amd or autofos?

[Christopher Slater <olyar@yahoo.com>]

However, by hard mounting the NFS mount you will get stale mounts if
the server goes down.  

I've had good luck with AMD, but I think you're right that autofs
seemed easier to configure.  

I would guess that you should be able to fix the problem you're
currently seeing using *either* package.  Could be unrelated to the
package, or a bug in the older version that might be installed.

Chris

--- James Kelty <jamesk@everbase.net> wrote:
> If you just want to mount the NFS shares at boot and keep them there,
> you
> can
> just edit the /etc/fstab file to reflect that.
> 
> -James
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Paul Furness
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:59 AM
> To: linux-net@vger.kernel.org; linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: amd or autofos?
> 
> 
> Hi, all.
> 
> Is there someone around with lots of experience of auto mounting nfs
> shares on RedHat?
> 
> Here's the setup:
> I have just taken over running the network and servers for this nice
> company, and we currently have a number of servers (all running
> RedHat
> 6.2) that variously run NIS, apache, various databases, and lots of
> disk
> space. The disks are shared using nfs shared, and then mounted using
> AMD
> on whichever machine the user logs in to. This includes not only
> shared
> volumes of data, but also the home directories of the users.
> 
> There is an ongoing problem where AMD on a random machine dies at a
> random time, and has to be restarted so people can access files
> again.
> 
> It is my intention to upgrade all the servers to RH7.2 (I could
> update
> the individual packages and the build a kernel, but a full upgrade
> seems
> a whole lot simpler to manage!) and I also have the chance to update
> how
> some of it works.
> 
> So given an unrestricted choice between ams and autofs, which would
> you
> go for? Is autofs more stable than amd? It certainly looks to be
> slightly better documented and slightly easier to configure.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> BUNgle
> 
> "One of these days I'll figure how the damn thing works..."
> 
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