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Overview
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   Amd maintains a cache of mounted filesystems.  Filesystems are
"demand-mounted" when they are first referenced, and unmounted after a
period of inactivity.  Amd may be used as a replacement for Sun's
automount(8) program.  It contains no proprietary source code and has
been ported to numerous flavors of Unix.  Note: Supported Platforms.

   Amd was designed as the basis for experimenting with filesystem
layout and management.  Although Amd has many direct applications it is
loaded with additional features which have little practical use.  At
some point the infrequently used components may be removed to streamline
the production system.

Fundamentals

Filesystems and Volumes

Volume Naming

Volume Binding

Operational Principles

Mounting a Volume

Automatic Unmounting

Keep-alives

Non-blocking Operation