On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Dimitry V. Ketov wrote: > - Which reasons (besides simplicity) led developers to the autofs > solution? > - What's wrong with nfs for the same things?
autofs mounts any available filesystem on demand. It is most widely used for NFS filesystems, but the distributed /etc/auto.misc file shows a number of examples of non-NFS mounts: the version I have has examples for a zip drive, a CD and a floppy, as well as NFS to a foreign site. Samba mounts can also be done. (I think.) All the quirks and foibles of NFS that you have to deal with when mounting manually or via fstab, equally have to be dealt with when you use autofs. Often it is hard to figure out whether NFS or the automounter is responsible for a particular unexpected behavior. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key) _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
