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!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is a program for automatically mounting [File System] directories on an as-needed basis.
Auto-mounts are mounted only as they are accessed, and are unmounted after a period of inactivity. Because of this, automounting [NFS]/[Samba] shares conserves bandwidth and offers better overall performance compared to static mounts via [fstab].
For [LDAP] there are three [LDAP schema used by autofs]
To avoid confusion, the following terminologies will be used:
automount is the program used to configure a mount point for [{$pagename}]. When autofs is started, an automount [daemon] is spawned for each map.
Auto-mount or auto-mounting refers to the process of automatically mounting filesystems. [autofs] is the program that controls the operation of the automount daemons.
!! More Information
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:
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* [#1] - [Autofs|https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2020-02-19