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INDEX ENTRY FOR AMD:
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Name: AMD - Mounts filesystems automatically
Version: 5.2 and 5.3b1
Author(s): Jan-Simon Pendry <jsp@sequent.com>
Jan-Simon Pendry,
Department of Computing,
Imperial College,
London, UK.
On the CD-ROM in: sysadm/amd.tar
Ftp source: usc.edu:/pub/amd
Size on the CD: 901 KB (compressed)
Description:
Amd is a daemon that automatically mounts filesystems whenever a file or
directory within that filesystem is accessed. Filesystems are automati-
cally unmounted when they appear to have become quiescent.
Amd operates by attaching itself as an NFS server to each of the speci-
fied directories. Lookups within the specified directories are handled
by amd, which uses the map defined by mapname to determine how to
resolve the lookup. Generally, this will be a host name, some filesys-
tem information and some mount options for the given filesystem.
-- Quoted from the manpage by Jan-Simon Pendry in the amd-5.3beta1
distribution
Advertised architectures:
Machine Architectures
Alliant FX/4
Acorn ARM
Data General AViiON
Encore
FPS Model 500
HP 9000/300 family
HP 9000/800 family
IBM RT
IBM RISC System/6000
SGI Iris 4D
Apple Mac II
MIPS RISC
Encore Multimax
HLH Orion 1/05
Sun-3 family
Tahoe family
DEC Vax
Operating Systems
4.3 BSD for IBM RT
AIX 3.1
System V for Mac-II
4.4 BSD
Concentrix 5.0
Convex OS 7.1
Data General DG/UX
Celerity FPX 4.1/2
Harris HCX/UX
HLH OTS 1.x (4.2 BSD)
HP-UX 6.x or 7.0
SGI Irix
Mach for NeXT
Pyramid OSx
Acorn RISC iX
SunOS 3.4 & 3.5
SunOS 4.x
Ultrix 2.2
Ultrix 3
Ultrix 4.0
Umax 4.3 BSD
Utek 4.0
mt Xinu MORE/bsd
-- Gleaned from texinfo page "Amd - The 4.4 BSD Automounter" by
Jan-Simon Pendry
Prerequisites: C compiler, NFS