In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS Automount from FreeNAS Server,...:
As an OI newcomer, I'm somewhat confused. I thought mounting was done via /etc/vfstab entries? Or is something else/more being attempted here?
There's a bit more going on here. vfstab entries for traditional filesystems are closer to the "static" end of the filesystem mount "spectrum". Long before the days of an OS automatically mounting a USB stick when you inserted it, the autofs/automountd stack could do something kind of like that, but generally aimed at network filesystems (NFS). The classic example that Sun used to champion was a cluster of diskless workstations that auto-mounted NFS shares (like your home directory) automatically when needed. automountd typically played a part in that. You can read more about it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automounter and the OI/Solaris-ancestry bits in automount(1M), automountd(1M), autofs(4). Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure / Division of Information Technology / 701-231-1076 (Voice) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss