9 May
2010
9 May
'10
2:22 p.m.
On May 9, 2010, at 9:49 AM, James Pearson wrote:
aurfalien@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Does setting the autofs timeout=0 create a permanent mount?
What I'm trying to do is get the best of both world;
- Have a persistent mount so that users can use autocompletion.
- utilize the benefits of autofs so that when an NFS resource
becomes unavailable, the system doesn't hang.
I've tried a timeout of 0 but it doesn't seem to work.
I can't see that making an autofs mount permanent will help ...
If the NFS server goes away and it is mounted on your client (via the automounter or statically), the client will still hang on accessing the mount point.
I see, I was hoping to test and find out exactly what would happen.
Brian Mathis had a great suggestion so I went with it (crontab ls).