On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 00:33 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What exactly is the outcome if the remote host cannot be mounted?
Booting can take ages, more so if you had several mounts. Then logon
was painful, if any of those mounts was to be mounted within the
homespace.
> It seemed from what I re
Tim wrote:
>> Incidentally, the sample /etc/auto.master in Fedora-14
>> ends with the line
>> +auto.master
>> but I've been unable to find any explanation of this.
>
> See man auto.master
...
>Additionally, a map may be included from its source as if it were
>it- self present in
Tim wrote:
>> What exactly is the advantage of using autofs
>> over an entry or entries in /etc/fstab ?
>
> Autofs only mounts the device when you/something requests access to the
> mount point. fstab will try mounting it at boot time, unless you add a
> noauto parameter. It's somewhat easier t
On 12/11/10 10:47 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:30 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> What exactly is the advantage of using autofs
>> over an entry or entries in /etc/fstab ?
> Autofs only mounts the device when you/something requests access to the
> mount point. fstab will try mounting
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:30 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What exactly is the advantage of using autofs
> over an entry or entries in /etc/fstab ?
Autofs only mounts the device when you/something requests access to the
mount point. fstab will try mounting it at boot time, unless you add a
noauto
