On May 9, 2010, at 9:49 AM, James Pearson wrote:
> aurfalien@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does setting the autofs timeout=0 create a permanent mount?
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is get the best of both world;
>>
>> 1) Have a persistent mount so that users can use autocompletion.
>> 2) utilize the benefits of autofs so that when an NFS resource
>> becomes
>> unavailable, the system doesn't hang.
>>
>> I've tried a timeout of 0 but it doesn't seem to work.
>
> I can't see that making an autofs mount permanent will help ...
>
> If the NFS server goes away and it is mounted on your client (via the
> automounter or statically), the client will still hang on accessing
> the
> mount point.
I see, I was hoping to test and find out exactly what would happen.
Brian Mathis had a great suggestion so I went with it (crontab ls).
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