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4.2 File System Types
4.2.5 Autofs
The automounting file system, autofs, mounts file systems when access is requested and unmounts the file system after a few minutes of inactivity. There's a certain amount of overhead traffic required to maintain the NFS connection. Autofs allows you to break that connection when the file system is not being used and restart it again automatically when access is desired. This reduces network traffic. The automount daemon, automountd, is run to mount file systems requested by autofs.
Unix System Administration - 8 AUG 1996
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