However, by hard mounting the NFS mount you will get stale mounts if the server goes down. I've had good luck with AMD, but I think you're right that autofs seemed easier to configure. I would guess that you should be able to fix the problem you're currently seeing using *either* package. Could be unrelated to the package, or a bug in the older version that might be installed. Chris --- James Kelty <jamesk@everbase.net> wrote: > If you just want to mount the NFS shares at boot and keep them there, > you > can > just edit the /etc/fstab file to reflect that. > > -James > > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Paul Furness > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:59 AM > To: linux-net@vger.kernel.org; linux-admin@vger.kernel.org > Subject: amd or autofos? > > > Hi, all. > > Is there someone around with lots of experience of auto mounting nfs > shares on RedHat? > > Here's the setup: > I have just taken over running the network and servers for this nice > company, and we currently have a number of servers (all running > RedHat > 6.2) that variously run NIS, apache, various databases, and lots of > disk > space. The disks are shared using nfs shared, and then mounted using > AMD > on whichever machine the user logs in to. This includes not only > shared > volumes of data, but also the home directories of the users. > > There is an ongoing problem where AMD on a random machine dies at a > random time, and has to be restarted so people can access files > again. > > It is my intention to upgrade all the servers to RH7.2 (I could > update > the individual packages and the build a kernel, but a full upgrade > seems > a whole lot simpler to manage!) and I also have the chance to update > how > some of it works. > > So given an unrestricted choice between ams and autofs, which would > you > go for? Is autofs more stable than amd? It certainly looks to be > slightly better documented and slightly easier to configure. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. > > Thanks. > > BUNgle > > "One of these days I'll figure how the damn thing works..." > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe > linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe > linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
