Many large scale enterprise deployments include an automounter implementation. The automounter provides a mechanism for automatically mounting file systems upon access, and umounting them when they are no longer referenced. It turns out that the Linux automounter is not feature-complete. And there are cases where Linux is just plain incompatible with the implementations from other proprietary vendors.

This presentation looks at the common problems in large-scale Linux autofs deployments, and offers solutions to these problems.

An audio recording of the talk is available (1hr:20min).