On 13 June 2017 at 13:27, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 06:34:54AM +0100, James Hogarth wrote: >> Depending on your setup, you many want to look at converting your >> automatic mounts into systemd mounts, and depend on that directly, >> rather than on the autofs service. > [...] >> Just one little thing to note here that many don't realise. All mounts in >> the system (ie not manually via the mount command) are systemd mounts. > > This isn't true for autofs, is it? > >> Finally autofs is made even easier with systemd as all you need to do to >> declare a mount autofs is x-systemd.automount in the options field and then >> it'll only be mounted on demand rather than at boot. > > I mean, autofs using the traditional autofs.... > I've not actually tested that tbh Matt ... I expect that indeed that case it wouldn't work But unless you need a complicated map arrangement I'd argue on EL7 you'd be better off using the fstab option to make the mount automount