On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Phil Rand wrote:
> The clear consensus was that amd is a much better choice than automount,
> though a few thought automount could be made to work at a small, simple site
> with a reliable network. For larger sites, especially with heterogenous
> equipment, amd is definitely recommended.
>
[snip]
> I'll keep copies of all the answers for a while. If anybody wants all the
> gory details, let me know.
Several people wrote to ask for the gory details. To make this simpler, I've
posted everything I've received as of today (8/1/95) to our local FTP site:
ftp://ftp.spu.edu/pub/misc/amd-vs-automount.txt
If anybody has trouble getting this, let me know.
Also, a couple people asked if amd works for alphas, and where to find an
alpha-ready copy. I didn't ask about that in my original question, and
nobody happened to mention it, but several of them did say they were running
amd on alphas, so I conclude the standard version must work, or an
alpha-ready one must be available.
My only suitable test machine is down with a memory problem right now, so I
haven't done anything with amd other than ftp a copy from gatekeeper.dec.com,
and browse the documentation a bit.
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Received on Tue Aug 01 1995 - 22:59:12 NZST