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. It is the same presentation given about a year ago but will focus on the development progress of the new features in autofs version 5 described in the presentation.

Getting There

This month’s seminar is being held in the ‘Futuresphere’, Christ Church Grammar School, located at:

**Christ Church Grammar School
Queenslea Drive
Claremont WA
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To get to Queenslea Drive from the Freeway, jump off at Mounts Bay Road then take Stirling Hwy to Claremont (about 10 minutes past UWA). Having gone through Claremont, you'll see a stone church to the left; turn immediately left at the next set of lights (Queenslea Drive), and the school will be directly on your right.