Berkeley Automounter

am-utils
Developer(s) Erez Zadok
Stable release
6.1.5 / May 11, 2006
Preview release
6.2a2 / May 11, 2006
Operating system Cross-platform
Type NFS Automounter
License BSD License
Website http://www.am-utils.org/

The Berkeley Automounter (or amd) first appeared in 4.4BSD, and is a computer automounter daemon. 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 maintainership was picked up by Erez Zadok, who has maintained it since 1993.

The am-utils package which comprises amd 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.

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

References

  1. Jan-Simon Pendry (1989-12-01). "''Amd'' - An Automounter". Newsgroup: comp.unix.wizards. Retrieved 2007-12-23.

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