fstab vs autofs

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Nov 13 14:31:32 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 00:33 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What exactly is the outcome if the remote host cannot be mounted?

Booting can take ages, more so if you had several mounts.  Then logon
was painful, if any of those mounts was to be mounted within the
homespace.

> It seemed from what I read that there should just be a delay (timeout)
> of 60 seconds; but I recall a much longer delay in practice.

Likewise.

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