Enhanced AutoFS Release Notes HP-UX 11i version 1 Edition 1 Manufacturing Part Number: 5990-7200 March 2004 United States © Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Company, L. P.
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Enhanced AutoFS Release Notes Announcement Announcement AutoFS is a client-side service that supports automatic mounting and unmounting of file systems. This process is nearly transparent to the users. AutoFS is implemented as a virtual file system (VFS). It supports automounting by instructing the user-space daemon, automountd, to mount and unmount the directories it manages.
Enhanced AutoFS Release Notes What Is in This Version What Is in This Version The new features introduced with Enhanced AutoFS are as follows: • On-demand mounting - Enhanced AutoFS mounts only those file systems that users access; other file systems that are hierarchically related to these file systems are mounted as needed. This increases the performance by preventing unnecessary mounting and unmounting.
Enhanced AutoFS Release Notes Installation Information Installation Information This section includes information on installing Enhanced AutoFS and verifying the Enhanced AutoFS installation. In addition, it includes information required before the Enhanced AutoFS installation.
Enhanced AutoFS Release Notes Installation Information If Enhanced AutoFS is successfully installed, the following message appears: Verification succeeded NOTE After installing Enhanced AutoFS, you can specify the maximum data segment size for an executing process using the maxdsiz kernel variable. The value for this variable should be at least 256 MB. It is necessary to change the value of the maxdsiz kernel variable because automountd requires a larger data segment size in a large map configuration.
Enhanced AutoFS Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages Enhanced AutoFS is available in English only, and its product documentation, too, is available in English only.
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Enhanced AutoFS Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version Patches and Fixes in This Version Not applicable 12
