Say you have a machine with 8+ disks you share out to users. They may or may
not
need all 8 disks. You put the automounter on them. If the user CD's into
the directory it mounts up, and later unmounts.
This makes things simpler if the server or disk goes down for some reason. It
wont hang clients not using the disk/server in pariticular.
Also, with some good imagination, you can have mirrors of common filesystems
that are used alot and have clients hit diff mirrors for a form of load
ballancing.
Robert
Thus spake David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Quoting Frank Trenkamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > > Now I've never used automounting at all. What benefit does it confer
> > > when used with a fixed partition? (I can see the virtues with
> > > removable disks and remote machines like your NFS mount below.)
> >
> > In my opinion it's a question of comfort. It saves typing, as you can omit
> > su, sudo etc. and the actual mount command. Ok ok, it's for the real lazy
> > kind like me .. ;)
> >
> > On the other hand, if you wanted to remove, say, a floppy before autofs's
> > timeout, you do need to unmount it explicitly to ensure it syncs back. But
> > that's what mtools are good for. ;)
>
> I guess one day the penny will drop, but it hasn't yet.
> (There's no typing involved with an entry in /etc/fstab.)
>
> Cheers,
>
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