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autofs
—
automounter filesystem
options AUTOFS
The autofs
driver is the kernel component
of the automounter infrastructure. Its job is to pass mount requests to the
automountd(8) daemon, and
pause the processes trying to access the automounted filesystem until the
mount is completed. It is mounted by the
automount(8).
These options are available when mounting
autofs
file systems:
master_options
master_prefix
To unmount all mounted autofs
filesystems:
umount -At autofs
To mount autofs
filesystems specified in
auto_master(5):
automount
auto_master(5), automount(8), automountd(8), autounmountd(8), mount_autofs(8)
The autofs
driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 10.1. The autofs
driver first appeared in DragonFly 4.5. The
autofs
driver first appeared in
NetBSD 9.0.
The autofs
was developed by
Edward Tomasz Napierala
<trasz@FreeBSD.org>
under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.
The autofs
was ported to
DragonFly and NetBSD by
Tomohiro Kusumi
<tkusumi@netbsd.org>.
November 25, 2017 | NetBSD 10.99 |