RHEL6–37–AUTOFS-2

RHEL6–37–AUTOFS-2

INDIRECT MAP:

This is the main reason because of “autofs” is too famous. Let’s assume there are several remote users in a network, jumping from this server to that server. They all need a space on each server to edit their files or do some data retrieval work. They can collect their data on each server and send it back to their home location, but this is not feasible. Also practically it is not possible to carry their home dir to each location while login to that server.

But what if they get their default home dir on each server as they logged in.

RHEL6–36–AUTOFS-1

RHEL6–36–AUTOFS

WHAT IS AUTOFS?

Mounted partition is a dedicated resource in NFS whereas in autofs mount & unmount are not permanent. They automatically mounted whenever accessed and unmounted if not used for certain time.

WHY /WHEN /WHERE AUTOFS?

If we want to save precious bandwidth & system resources then we should opt for autofs.

Still not clear…?

Let’s have an example,