On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:16 AM, <aurfalien at 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; > > 1) Have a persistent mount so that users can use autocompletion. > 2) 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. A simple solution would be to setup a cron job that runs every 5 minutes and does ls /mount/point > /dev/null