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The Autofs Automounter

Authors: 

Brent Callaghan, Satinder Singh, SunSoft, Inc.

Abstract: 

Prior to the introduction of the automounter in 1987, NFS mounts were administered separately on each workstation. The automounter has provided administrators with a tool to construct a filesystem namespace that can be shared across an organization. While the automounter is widely used, its success has been tempered by problems inherent in its implementation. This paper describes a new implementation of the automounter based on a new filesystem. This new automounter not only fixes the problems, but provides some interesting opportunities for future development.

Brent Callaghan, SunSoft, Inc.

Satinder Singh, SunSoft, Inc.

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http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/cinci93/full_papers/callaghan.txt
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