Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:23:44 +0100 From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> To: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using AMD with NFS Mounts Message-ID: <201208301623.q7UGNiEr006228@higson.cam.lispworks.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1208291209280.7395@scooby.simplesystems.org> (message from Bob Friesenhahn on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:15:39 -0500 (CDT)) References: <CAG27QgSKtWr0gaKLO6XXO=Yp=m1bspT0iJG6J24r6u-MDk4sJw@mail.gmail.com> <201208281813.q7SIDEiJ000779@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <CAG27QgTinNfPQbn8kVocpWe5k%2BaE=CasbtNbdUdm03zbowV=FQ@mail.gmail.com> <201208291053.q7TArlAs000409@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <CAG27QgQzmvMT2jjvoEZ8wrrdodBydXpSBsjtsZ1R9gvp=EGT2Q@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.DEB.2.02.1208291209280.7395@scooby.simplesystems.org>
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>>>>> 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
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