autofs is a program for automatically mounting directories on an as-needed basis. Auto-mounts are mounted only as they are accessed, and are unmounted after a period of inactivity. Because of this, automounting NFS/Samba shares conserves bandwidth and offers better overall performance compared to static mounts via fstab. To avoid confusion, the following terminologies will be used: automount: the program used to configure a mount point for autofs. When autofs is started, an automount daemon is
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AutoFS
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