Perth Linux Users' Group

December 2005 Seminar

Title: Autofs, the Linux automounter
When: Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Where: Meeting Room 2, Collins Street Centre (cnr Collins Street and Shaftesbury Street, South Perth)
Presenter: Ian Kent

Many large scale enterprise deployments include an automounter implementation. The automounter provides a mechanism for automatically mounting file systems upon access, and umounting them when they are no longer referenced. It turns out that the Linux automounter is not feature-complete. And there are cases where Linux is just plain incompatible with the implementations from other proprietary vendors.

This presentation looks at the common problems in large-scale Linux autofs deployments, and offers solutions to these problems.

An audio recording of the talk is available (1hr:20min).

• Ogg Vorbis format [15kbit, 8.7MB]. Playable in most free software media applications; see also http://www.vorbis.com/.
• MP3 format [18kbit, 10MB].

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