Using AMD with NFS Mounts

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:15:39 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn said:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Tim Gustafson wrote:
> >
> > Not having autofs on FreeBSD is a real thorn in my side.  I'm trying
> > to get FreeBSD implemented more at UCSC, and specifically the School
> > of Engineering, as a large-volume file server, and the lack of a
> > proper auto-mounter that works the same way (or at least close enough)
> > as all our other systems is a huge roadblock.
> 
> I agree.  I don't understand the relationship between FreeBSD and AMD 
> (am-utils).  FreeBSD barely admits to having AMD and does not provide 
> any documentation for it.

Hmm, there is an example of AMD in the FreeBSD Handbook and extensive
documentation via man pages and info pages.


> > I'm not much of a kernel hacker, otherwise I might attempt this
> > myself, but it seems like this can't possibly be that hard, especially
> > since it's implemented in Linux, which is GPL'd and therefore open to
> > porting.
> 
> It would be more reasonable to re-use the Sun automounter code from 
> Illumos which should be under CDDL license like zfs.  The Sun 
> automounter code is more mature than Linux automounter and has fewer 
> missing features and fewer bugs.

I would miss AMD things like type:=link and normalize_hostnames for preventing
duplicate mounts of the same resource.

__Martin