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<TITLE>The Automounter</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node146.html">Managing Taylor UUCP</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node140.html">The Network File System</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node144.html">The exports File</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0013500000">The Automounter</A></H1>
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<A NAME="nfsautomounter"></A>
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Sometimes, it is wasteful to mount all NFS volumes users might possibly
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want to access; either because of the sheer number of volumes to be
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mounted, or because of the time this would take at startup. A viable
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alternative to this is a so-called <em>automounter</em>. This is a daemon
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that automatically and transparently mounts any NFS volume as needed,
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and unmounts them after they have not been used for some time. One of
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the clever things about an automounter is that it is able to mount a
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certain volume from alternative places. For instance, you may keep
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copies of your X-programs and support files on two or three hosts, and
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have all other hosts mount them via NFS. Using an automounter, you may
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specify all three of them to be mounted on /usr/X386; the
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automounter will then try to mount any of these until one of the mount
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attempts succeeds.
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The automounter commonly used with is called amd. It
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was originally written by Jan-Simon Pendry and has been ported to
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by Rick Sladkey. The current version is amd-5.3.
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Explaining amd is beyond the scope of this chapter; for
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a good manual please refer to the sources; they contain a texinfo
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file with very detailed information.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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