On May 9, 2010, at 9:49 AM, James Pearson wrote: > 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. > > 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).