Hacking the Linux Automounter Linux Kongress

Hacking the Linux Automounter Linux Kongress
Jeff Moyer Senior Software Engineer


Overview


What is the automounter? Configuration Linux implementation What's to come: autofs v5 Contributing


What is the automounter?


Automatically mount and unmount file systems


NFS Local file system (bind mounts) Samba* etc.



Why?


Manageability! This goal is not achieved by the current Linux automounter