On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:30 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What exactly is the advantage of using autofs
> over an entry or entries in /etc/fstab ?
Autofs only mounts the device when you/something requests access to the
mount point. fstab will try mounting it at boot time, unless you add a
noauto parameter. It's somewhat easier to add non-default options to
fstab file, than tuning autofs to your requirements. Always-mounted
network shares can be a problem if they're not reachable when you boot
up.
> Incidentally, the sample /etc/auto.master in Fedora-14
> ends with the line
> +auto.master
> but I've been unable to find any explanation of this.
See man auto.master
For indirect maps access is by using the path scheme:
/mount-point/key
where mount-point is one of the entries listed in the master map. The
key is a single directory component and is matched against entries in
the map given in the entry (See autofs(5)).
Additionally, a map may be included from its source as if it were it-
self present in the master map by including a line of the form: + [map-
type,format:]map[options] and automount(8) will process the map accord-
ing to the specification described below for map entries.
That sort-of explains it, even if not very understandable.
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