On 01/01/2021 10:44, Tim via users wrote:
Francis.Montagnac(a)inria.fr:
>> Using autofs instead of systemd-automount would have the advantage
>> to unmount automatically after some delay.
Ed Greshko:
> Not true.
When did that change? That's how it's behaved for me, for many years.
I went to using autofs to auto-mount remote shares on demand, long ago,
for reasons the original poster outlined:
It's not there until you request it, so computers don't stall when you
try to boot and the remote end isn't there. Likewise it removes itself
after a while, and you don't get a huge long stall when you try to
shutdown a computer because the remote end isn't co-operating.
I have no idea of the history. But, being the curious type, I just booted an F18 live iso
and
the man page for systemd.mount only specified x-systemd.device-timeout. I have no idea
if the other options actually existed and this was just an omission in the documentation.
Or,
if they were not yet implemented.
Either way, I could see how someone not having read the man page since F17 may be unaware
of those options. :-) :-)
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