It is convenient to mount some filesystems on when-needed basis. What deamon provides this functionality? What configuration files are involved? How to check the status of this daemon? List some common use cases when this functionality is useful.
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Assuming this is a question:
In solaris, and I guess in almost *nix systems, you can user de automount services. The utilization is quite easy and there is lots of docs on internet reguarding this.
The general configuration file is /etc/auto_home.
It realy boosts the server’s network performance, since you don’t have a lot of unnecessary TCP/UDP connections coming and going through your server. It mounts instantly the directories and does not has any overhead reguarding TCP handshake phase.
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