Subject: Re: nfs is hell
To: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/01/1995 20:17:18
Scott Reynolds writes:
> Using amd(8) will help to alleviate the problem, since the mounts are 
> only made when you need them.  You incur a small performance penalty for 
> the initial mount, but in my experience this is worth the somewhat 
> increased reliability of the system.

I heavily second that recommendation.

BTW, it would be really neat to implement a solaris style autofs for
NetBSD at some point that had all of AMD's functionality -- it would
improve performance on this stuff quite heavily.

Perry