[CentOS] disable autofs timeout

Sat May 8 15:12:29 UTC 2010
Brian Mathis <brian.mathis at gmail.com>

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