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Filesystems and Volumes
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   Amd views the world as a set of fileservers, each containing one or
more filesystems where each filesystem contains one or more "volumes".
Here the term "volume" is used to refer to a coherent set of files such
as a user's home directory or a TeX distribution.

   In order to access the contents of a volume, Amd must be told in
which filesystem the volume resides and which host owns the filesystem.
By default the host is assumed to be local and the volume is assumed to
be the entire filesystem.  If a filesystem contains more than one
volume, then a "sublink" is used to refer to the sub-directory within
the filesystem where the volume can be found.