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Subject: Re: Am I dreaming? 
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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1995 19:30:54 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
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> The automount daemon circumvents the same problem appearing for NFS.
> Life goes on while the automounter tracks down and mounts the
> required resource... It's been a while since I ran a network large
> enough to justify automounting, but I don't remember any system
> delays while the node was found and mounted.  Would it be useful to
> consider what & how the automounter achieves its' effects?  Note that

Actually, it sort of would since I've always *wondered* how it did that! :-)

Anybody know off the top of their heads?

						Jordan