wok-next diff linux/description.linux-autofs.txt @ rev 21570
updated cryptsetup (2.0.6 -> 2.3.3)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Mon Jun 22 16:47:02 2020 +0100 (2020-06-22) |
parents | 119e586fb823 |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/linux/description.linux-autofs.txt Mon Jun 22 16:47:02 2020 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ 1.4 +The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems on demand. 1.5 +This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce overhead in the 1.6 +already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD automounter (amd), which is a pure 1.7 +user space daemon. 1.8 + 1.9 +To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 1.10 +<ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>. 1.11 + 1.12 +If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or don't have a 1.13 +laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the local network, you 1.14 +probably do not need an automounter.