==> On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:45:54 -0400, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

Paul> I've looked around but I couldn't find an answer to this
Paul> question.  There are a lot of offhand comments saying the
Paul> filesystem will be unmounted after timeout seconds, but that's
Paul> not very precise.

Paul> If, for example, I set --timeout=60, does that mean the FS will
Paul> unmount 60 seconds after it was last accessed?

Paul> Or, does it mean that every 60 seconds automount will wake up
Paul> and see if anyone is using the filesystem, and if not unmount
Paul> it?

If you set the timeout to 60 seconds, the automount daemon will wake
up approximately every 15 seconds (4 times per timeout, see
CHECK_RATIO in the daemon) and ask the kernel if it is okay to expire
the mount.

-Jeff

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