[PLUG] amd: needed or not?

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Fedor G. Pikus wrote:

> 1) amd is only needed if you want to mount nfs filesystems by hostname
> (i.e. if you want to mount /net/scratchy and it automatically mounts
> scratchy:/, or /net/itchy and then it's itchy:/). Otherwise use autofs
> 2) amd is crap even for /net filesystems, if you need them, use autofs4
> 3) if you have everything mounted statically, you can uninstall all
> automounters, both amd and autofs. Everything here includes floppy and
> cdrom. If you want to be able to do ls /mnt/cdrom and it gets mounted, you
> need an automounter, but that automounter should be autofs. Sounds
> convenient, but it's a pain in the ass to get that CD ejected because you
> need to convince the automounter to let you unmount it.

Fedor,

  Thanks very much. I suppose that I slightly understood what they did, but
now I understand much more. They're now shut off.

Rich