Berkeley Automounter

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am-utils

Developer:	Erez Zadok
Latest release:	6.1.5 / May 11, 2006
Preview release:	6.2a2 / May 11, 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	NFS Automounter
License:	BSD License
Website:	http://www.am-utils.org/

The Berkeley Automounter (or amd) first appeared in 4.4BSD, and is a computer automounter daemon. The original Berkeley automounter was created by Jan-Simon Pendry in or around 1989 and was donated to Berkeley. After languishing for a few years, the maintainership was picked up by Erez Zadok, who has maintained it since 1993.

The am-utils package which comprises amd is included with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. It is also included with a vast number of Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Core, ASPLinux, Trustix, Mandriva, and others.

The Berkeley automounter has a large number of contributors, including several who worked on the original automounter with Jan-Simon Pendry.

The automounter is almost certainly the oldest and most portable of any automounters available today; it is, arguably, the most flexible and perhaps the most widely used.