[OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

[Michael Stapleton]

Hi,

I have been using Solaris only since 2.6 and /home has always been an
autofs mount point. What version of Solaris did not have /home as an
autofs mount point?
Or are you confusing OI with some other OS?


Mike

. On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 09:51 -0400, Daniel Kjar wrote:

> 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.
> >
>