HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

New and Changed Disk and File Management Features
Mounting and Unmounting NFS File Systems Automatically Using AutoFS
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NOTE If you do not use this script, you need to remember which
implementation of automatic NFS file mounting you are using. Starting
both AutoFS and automounter can lead to problems accessing theremote
file system. You must reboot to switch between AutoFS and the old
automounter.
Other Operational Differences
Any user-written scripts that expect the automount command to remain
running as a daemon will have to be updated either to not expect this
behavior or to check explicitly that automountd is running. AutoFS can
no longer be shut down by killing the automount process; instead, you
must shut it down by executing the following command:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
This will unmount all mounted AutoFS filesystems and then kill the
automountd process.
To stop AutoFS without using the /sbin/init.d/nfs.client script,
you must enter the following:
/usr/sbin/umountall -F autofs
kill automounted_pid
The automount -n, -M , and -tw options are not supported in AutoFS.
The -m and -tm options are also not supported, but their behavior can
be configured in different ways:
• by modifying the nsswitch.conf file to get the -m behavior
• by modifying the automount map entries to specify the timeout for
the -tm option. The -tl option is accessed using -t
Another difference between automounter and AutoFS is that AutoFS no
longer uses symbolic links to access the mount points. Applications that
depend on this explicit behavior will no longer work as expected.
Additional Information
The existing 11.0 automounter can be re-enabled, if desired, by setting
the AUTOFS variable to 0 or by removing the AUTOFS variable from