Recently I asked:
AJK> Following the interesting article by Marty Leisner in UnixWorld, 1/92 about
AJK> the AMD automounter, I'm considering the possibility of using it. My
AJK> questions are:
AJK> 1. How better is it than Sun's automounter?
AJK> 2. What kind of support is available for AMD? Any mailing list? Newsgroup?
The major win points for AMD are:
1. AMD supports redundancy. Sun's doesn't.
2. AMD is architecture neutral (SGI/DEC/HP/NEXT/IBM/SUN and on).
3. You have the source code.
4. AMD deals with failures better.
5. AMD is non blocking and multi-threaded. Client won't freeze if a server
crashes somewhere.
6. You can put in host and network dependencies.
7. You can mount more than just NFS file systems.
8. More reliable than some Sun versions.
9. AMD can read maps from NIS, Hesiod or text files.
10. AMD is much more configurable than Sun's.
Other notes of interest:
1. The mailing list is:
amd-workers@acl.lanl.gov
subscribe by sending mail to:
amd-workers-request@acl.lanl.gov
2. Current version (5.3 beta) needs may patches. Please note that only one
person had commented about this.
Marty Leisner says:
ML> There's also a good article by Dinah McNutt in March Unix Review on
ML> automounters.
Perry E. Metzger <pmetzger@shearson.com> adds:
PM> No real support, but Jan Simon Pendry tends to fix bugs if you point them
PM> out. We run it in a mission critical network at a financial institution,
PM> so our reliability constraints are very high -- we are perfectly happy with
PM> it. In fact, its far more reliable than the "supported" automounter from
PM> Sun.
Thanks to:
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Chuck Yerkes chuck@fsg.com
Joel Abbott, DoD#272 abbott@ms.uky.edu, abbott@ukma.bitnet, uunet!ukma!abbott
Marty Leisner leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
Jack Stewart jack@CCSF.Caltech.EDU
Gary Blumenstein garyb@gcm.com, uunet!gcm!garyb
Perry E. Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
Michael C. Busby mcb@compaq.com
Simon Leinen simon@lia.di.epfl.ch
Piete Brooks Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk
Tom Crummey tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk
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