Am-utils Frequently Asked Questions Note: we started this FAQ only on March 15, 2005; so it's not long or comprehensive, yet. Amd is much older than that, and so there's a lot of information that's already available in other forms. If this FAQ doesn't answer your questions, see information in the following sources: 1. The Am-utils book: http://www.am-utils.org/docs/amd-book/ 2. The Am-utils user manual, which is part of the distribution and is also available from www.am-utils.org. 3. The www.am-utils.org Web site resources, especially the "am-utils" mailing list (and its archives). 4. In the am-utils distribution (always use the latest ones), see all of the various README files (README, README.autofs, README.ldap, README.osx, and README.y2k). The "BUGS" file also lists useful information about bugs and problems with specific OSs which affect Amd. All of these text files are also available from www.am-utils.org. 5. Some FAQ questions (including newbie questions) are available here: http://www.kernelcorp.com/resources_faqs.html 6. Some problems are known bugs but have not been fixed yet: this are listed in bugzilla in https://bugzilla.am-utils.org/ If you have additions to this FAQ, please let us know at the am-utils list (see www.am-utils.org). Thank you, The Am-utils development team. *** Linux Questions Q1. When I use Amd with Autofs and I restart Amd, how come it cannot remount the Autofs partitions? A1. This is a limitation of the Linux Autofs kernel module (for both autofs v2. and v3). The Linux Autofs does not allow restarting automounted points. There's nothing Amd can do about this. In fact, the same problem exists if you use the userland "automount" daemon instead of Amd. Hopefully Autofs-v4 or the separate effort of Autofs-NG will address this serious problem. Note that Amd itself can restart autofs automounted points just fine on OSs that support it, for example Solaris. Q2. When I use Amd, I get this console message frequently: "mount version older than kernel." Is it a problem? A2. No, it's a harmless warning message that the Linux kernel prints for NFS mounts. The intent was to alert administrators that the kernel has supposedly a different version of the mount(2) code than a userland program used. This happens if you compile Amd against kernel headers that are different than the kernel you're running. If the message really bothers you, then one way to "fix" the problem is to recompile Amd against the same kernel headers as the running kernel. Nevertheless, it is a relatively useless message because as far as we know, the NFS v2 and v3 mount codes have been in perfect sync between the userland and kernel sides, and were "standardized" for years already. This warning message caused more unnecessary worry among administrators than helping alert them to legitimate problems.