An automounter maintains a cache of mounted file systems. File systems aremounted on demand when they are first referenced, and unmounted after aperiod of inactivity. This helps to centralize all file system access,provide a uniform site-wide namespace, and minimize downtimes forclients.
The Berkeley Automounter, Amd, may be used as a replacement for Sun'sautomounter. The choice of which file system to mount can be controlleddynamically with selectors. Selectors allow decisions of the form 'hostnameis this,' or 'architecture is not that.' Selectors may be combinedarbitrarily. Amd also supports a variety of file system types, includingNFS, UFS and the novel program file system. The combination of selectorsand multiple file system types allows identical configuration files to beused on all machines thus reducing the administrative overhead. Amd ensuresthat it will not hang if a remote server goes down. Moreover, Amd candetermine when a remote server has become inaccessible and then mountreplacement file systems as and when they become available.
- Automount.; 2 minutes to read; In this article Applies To: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.
- AutoMounter is a sleek and powerful menu item designed to automatically mount your network shares. FEATURES - Automatically Mounts SMB / AFP / NFS / WebDAV / (FTP is read-only) - Quickly remounts shares if they unmount - Supports multiple NAS appliances, with server and share discovery - Advanced mount rule matching against WiFi, VPN, and more.
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The automount program is used to manage mount points for autofs, the inlined Linux automounter. Automount works by reading the auto.master(8) map and sets up mount points for each entry in the master map allowing them to be automatically mounted when accessed. The file systems are then automatically umounted after a period of inactivity.
Welcome to the am-utils version 6.x home page. My name is Erez Zadok and I'm the leadmaintainer of am-utils. Am-utils is the 'next generation' of the popularBSD Automounter, Amd. Am-utils includes many additional updates, ports,programs, features (such as Autofs support, NFS V.4 support, experimentalLustre support, and sharedlibraries), bug fixes, and more.
Quick Links: | Latest Stable Sourcesam-utils-6.2(autofs) | Latest Test Releasenone | Daily CVS Snapshots | User Manual(also frames versionandall-in-one version) |
| October 30, 2014: official release of am-utils available,version am-utils-6.2. June 26, 2012: first release candidate of am-utils available,version am-utils-6.2-rc1. October 20, 2009: all development of am-utils move to our Git Server. October 10, 2005: First test release, am-utils6.2a1, includes Sun-style automountsyntax maps support. June 11, 2005: First official and stable am-utils 6.1is released (check updated releases since then). June 4, 2004: Commercialsupport for am-utils is available. |
Software:
- Main FTP server.
- Sources for lateststable version of am-utils.
- All other, older stablereleases of am-utils.
- The latestreleased snapshot of the sources, all releasedsnapshots, or a dailysnapshot of the sources. These may not be as stable as the officialversion.
- Sources for older alpha andbeta versions of am-utils and amd.
- Browse theAm-utils sources using LXR.
- Prebuilt binariesfor various platforms. Please read this READMEfile before using any of these binaries.
- Patches foram-utils software as well as system software
- For maintainers, utilities(possibly modified) such as GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool.
- FTP mirror sites.
Documentation and Information:
- My book.
- Latest user-manual (in HTML),postscript, or PDF. The distribution also includesEmacs Info and DVI formats.
- An FAQ which was started in March2005 (so its still small and evolving).
- List of platforms onwhich am-utils builds and runs, and the level of their compatibility. Alsoavailable in text format from the distribution is the INSTALL file.
- A list of known system bugs,including some very important issues concerning OS Attribute Cache limitations. Ifyou find a new problem with Am-utils, please describe it in detail and submit a bug report via Bugzilla.
- The latest NEWS file from thedistribution. The ChangeLog filecontains more verbose details.
- Information about Autofssupport.
- Information about Sun-styleautomounter maps support.
- Information about LDAPsupport.
- Information about Mac OS-Xsupport.
- Unofficial Year-2000 Complianceinformation.
- A list of tasks that need work on.Please volunteer to help if you can.
- A list of additional research publications and journal articlesrelating to Amd is available later in this page.
- I gave an AmdTutorial at LISA '99on Sunday, November 7, 1999. On Thursday, November 11, 1999, I hosted a BOFto discuss future directions for am-utils.
- On 09/1999, the CERThas released an important incident noteand a security advisory regarding Amd and am-utils.
- As of June 4, 2004, commercialsupport for am-utils is available.
- Swedish translation(Tilia Kurek, and Timur, October 24, 2016).
- Portuguese translation(Artur Weber and Adelina Domingos, March 8, 2018).
Mailing Lists:
Click on the list name below to access the subscription Web page. That pagewill also tell you how to post to the list, access the lists' archives,change your subscription status, etc.| List Name | Purpose | Who Can Subscribe | Who Can Post | Comments |
| am-utils | For users' questions, announcements, bug reports, and general. | Anyone | Subscribers only | This list used to be called amd-dev at cs.columbia.edu. Use new name please. |
| am-utils-announce | For announcements only | Anyone | Developers only | |
| am-utils-cvs | For CVS commit logs | Anyone | Developers only | You can access the nightly source snapshots here. |
| am-utils-developers | For official maintainers, by invitation only | No one | Developers with CVS commit privileges only | Listed here for completeness. |
| amd-workers | Older users list (defunct) | No one | No one | This older users list (which I never mainatined) no longerexists. This list was shutdown in January 2004. Use the neweram-utils list instead. |
Download software.
Books:
| # | Title (click for html version) | Formats | Published In | Date | Comments |
| 1 | Linux NFS and Automounter Administration | BibTeX | Sybex | May 2001 | See Book home page |
Journal Articles:
| # | Title (click for html version) | Formats | Published In | Date | Comments |
| 1 | Using the Amd Automounter | BibTeX | Linux Journal | Oct 2003 |
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Conference and Workshop Papers:
| # | Title (click for html version) | Formats | Published In | Date | Comments |
| 1 | Overhauling Amd for the '00s: A Case Study of GNU Autotools | Usenix Technical Conference, FREENIX Track | Jun 2002 | ||
| 2 | HLFSD: Delivering Email to your $HOME | Usenix Systems Administration (LISA VII) Conference | Nov 1993 |
Manuals:
Automounter For Macos
| # | Title (click for html version) | Formats | Published In | Date | Comments |
| 1 | Am-utils 6.1 (4.4 BSD Automounter Utilities) User Manual | Aug 2003 | See a frames version and an all-in-one version. |
Past Students:
Automounter Linux
| # | Name (click for home page) | Program | Period | Current Location |
| 1 | Ramya Edara | MS | Jan 2007 - Dec 2007 | Member of Technical Staff, Arista Networks (Menlo Park, California) |
| 2 | Dan Ottavio | MS | Jan 2005 - Aug 2005 | Senior Software Engineer, Amazon AWS (Cambridge, MA) |
Sponsors:
Linux Automount Command
| # | Sponsor | Amount | Period | Type | Title (click for award abstract) |
| 1 | IBM | 2003-2006 | Sole PI | IBM AIX 5.x Automounter Maintenance | |
| 2 | HP/Intel | $131,529 | 2002-2003 | Sole PI | Linux Application Performance and File System Security |
| 3 | HP/Intel | $22,490 | 2001-2002 | Sole PI | Linux Network Scalability and File System Reliability |
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