On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 15:54 Tim Mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 [email protected] > Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure / > Division of Information Technology / 701-231-1076 (Voice) > North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Oh, I see. Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
