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- Hi All,
-
- Announcing the third release of the AMD automounter for Linux.
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- What is an automounter ?? Well briefly put, it allows you to dynamically nfs
- (or even minix/ext{2}/msdos...) mount file systems on demand - i.e it is
- able to mount a home directory from a nfs server when a user requires it,
- and unmount it after a user defined period of time after it is deemed
- inactive. This reduces load both on the client and server. There are
- numerous features far too many to mention in fact, so I will let you read
- the documentation included.
-
- The `amd' package _requires_ that you have the NFS option in your kernel
- when it was compiled. You do NOT need to run mountd or nfsd except if you
- require other machines to mount yours. You however _do_ need /etc/portmap
- running _before_ you start `amd'.
-
- This finally fixes ALL known bugs (I have discovered). Most notably the
- direct automounts. If you have had problems before with "direct" mounts,
- please try this version. Also there was a bug (whoops I meant "feature") in
- kernels prior to 0.99.12 which made "direct" mounts unmountable. This has now
- been fixed. If you do not use "direct" mounts this binary will still work as
- expected.
-
- It is also worth mentioning that as GNU's getopt() behavior has stumped
- quite a few people. You should use -- to stop getopt from incorrectly
- parsing some options.
-
- It is now on
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- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/amd920824upl67-linux.tar.gz
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- but may be moved at some point in time to
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- /pub/Linux/system/Misc/mount/amd920824upl67-linux.tar.gz
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- It is also on nic.funet.fi but it is hidden until the archive maintainer
- (Arl) moves it appropriately. It will be available under
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- nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/tools/amd920824upl67-linux.tar.gz
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- The old(er) postscript documentation I uploaded to sunsite and nic is still
- valid.
-
- I said this last time, but I will say it again :-)
-
- This should be the final patches submitted to the AMD authors. (Actually
- this time was only 2 lines with *no* source code changes)
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- Warning: You need a fs with > 30 char limit to extract/build the source.
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- Due to popular demand I have included ready to run binaries. This should be
- sufficient for ANY type of file system you have compiled into your kernel,
- as I have made it possible to specify type=???? in the opts:= line in your
- maps.
-
- Mitch
- m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk
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