Enhanced AutoFS Release Notes, March 2004

Enhanced AutoFS Release Notes

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. It automatically mounts the appropriate ﬁle systems when needed and unmounts

them if they have been idle for the conﬁgured period of time (10 minutes is the default value).

AutoFS has been enhanced to provide the features of the SUN ONC+ version 2.3 AutoFS

product. This enhanced version of AutoFS is known as Enhanced AutoFS. With the Enhanced

AutoFS implementation, both performance and scalability are signiﬁcantly improved.