[OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

[Daniel Kjar]

I am sure it has great value, why would it be there otherwise?.  I just 
remember installing a fresh version  solaris  one day and trying to 
figure out why I couldn't just delete export and use /home like always.

Therefore, in my mind I associate it with being frustrated by a "I am 
sorry Dave, I can't allow you to do that" message until I figured out 
what had changed.

On 08/ 6/12 09:47 AM, James Carlson wrote:
> Daniel Kjar wrote:
>> Really?  What do you call that crap in etc under auto_master and auto_home?
> Read the man pages for the automounter.  Start with automount(1M).
>
> Yes, the system comes by default with that "crap," but (a) you certainly
> are under no obligation to use /export/home if you don't like it and (b)
> the mechanism that underlies it is far more general than just auto_home.
>   It allows you to trigger configured mounts based on file system access,
> and handles fail-over, platform-related variable expansion, and
> directory service integration.
>

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