Berkeley Automounter
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| [[Programmer|DeveloperTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | Erez Zadok |
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| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | NFS Automounter |
| License | BSD License |
| Website | http://www.am-utils.org/ |
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In computing the Berkeley Automounter (or amd) is a computer automounter daemon which first appeared in 4.4BSD in 1994. The original Berkeley automounter was created by Jan-Simon Pendry in 1989 and was donated to Berkeley.[1] After languishing for a few years, the maintenance was picked up by Erez Zadok, who has maintained it since 1993.
The am-utils package which comprises and is included with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. It is also included with a vast number of Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Core, ASPLinux, Trustix, Mandriva, and others.
The Berkeley automounter has a large number of contributors, including several who worked on the original automounter with Jan-Simon Pendry.
It is one of the oldest and more portable automounters available today, as well as the most flexible and the most widely used.[citation needed]
Caveats
There are a few "side effects" that come with files that are mounted using automounter, these may differ depending on how the service was configured.
- Access time of automounted directories is initially set to the time automounter was used to mount them, however after the directories are accessed, this statistic changes.
- On some systems, directories are not visible until the first time they are used. This means commands such as ls will fail.
- If mounted directories are not used for a period of time, directories are unmounted.
- When automounter mounts directories, they are said to be owned by root until someone uses them, at that time the correct owner of the directory shows up.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jan-Simon Pendry (1989-12-01). "''Amd'' - An Automounter". Newsgroup: comp.unix.wizards. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
External links
- Am-utils Home Page (home of amd)
- RPMs from rpmfind.net
