Hi, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> Thanks to those who responded so . . succinctly <g> to my post about > needing to do on-demand NFS mounting. > > Just a quickie for the list, now: which should I use? > i think it´s option joice of yourself for what you want to use it. If seen that AMD ( Auto Mounter Demon ) with Yellow Pages support is ok for many clients in a linux based network. the AMD Mount tables are spreaden through the YP. autofs is... i think... is the only one with a basic LDAP support so if you want to use it. automount ?!?!?! :) > What are the implications of using one over the other? > Is either noticably faster, more robust, or simply better than the > other? > The most problems i´ve seen in this cases are the mount informations and the NFS mounts. i don´t know how good NFS works with the new 2.4.1 Kernel. But some month ago i saw some problems with Shares on NFS and the spreading of the mount tables from AMD over YP. But thats not an 'Out Mounter' problem. > > Equally, has anyone got any horror stories about either . . ? > not really. Some security holes stuff in the told options above...but nothing critical i think. l8ters Daniel
