NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering AutoFS
How AutoFS Works
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CAUTION Filesystems under the management of AutoFS must always be
maintained using the AutoFS utilities automountd and automount.
Manually mounting and unmounting AutoFS-managed filesystems can
lead to disruptive or unpredictable results, including but not limited to:
commands hanging or not returning expected results, and applications
failing because of their dependencies on these mounted filesystems.
Supported Filesystems
AutoFS can mount the following filesystems:
•NFS
•CacheFS
•HFS
•VxFS
•CIFS
•AutoFS
On-Demand Mounting
In HP-UX 11i v3, the filesystems being accessed are mounted
automatically and other filesystems that are hierarchically related to
these filesystems are mounted only when needed.
In the following example, the AutoFS master and direct maps are on the
NFS client, sage:
# /etc/auto_master file
# local mount point map name mount options
/- /etc/auto_direct
# /etc/auto_direct file
# local mount point mount options remote server:directory
/auto/project/specs -nosuid thyme:/export/project/specs
/auto/project/specs/reqmnts -nosuid /
sage:/export/projects/specs/reqmnts
/auto/project/specs/reqmnts -nosuid