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Comparing AutoFS with Automounter
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Starting with the HP-UX Extension Pack release, August 1998 (for HP-UX 11.0), the new automounting utility, AutoFS, was available. Now, AutoFS has been enhanced to include the features of the SUN ONC+ 2.3 AutoFS. Automounter will become obsolete from the HP-UX release 11i version 2.

AutoFS mounts directories automatically when users or processes request access to them. It unmounts them automatically if they have been idle for a configured period of time (10 minutes, by default). AutoFS has the following advantages over old Automounter:

  • With AutoFS, the configured mount points are the actual mount points.

  • You do not have to stop AutoFS to change your AutoFS maps. The AutoFS daemon, automountd, runs continuously. When you make a change to an AutoFS map, you run the automount command, which reads the maps and then exits.

  • AutoFS can support different types of file systems, including NFS (protocol versions 2 and 3), HFS, CacheFS, VxFS, and the HP CIFS Client file system.



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