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
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Tim Mooney [email protected]
Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure /
Division of Information Technology / 701-231-1076 (Voice)
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
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