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Autofs LXC Share | All About

Autofs is an automount daemon. It helps us manage mount points. In other words, it only mounts a specific share when accessed. Furthermore, it unmounts the share after a fixed period of inactivity.

According to our experts, autofs come in handy while sharing resources between LXC. In fact, this process involves automatically mounting and managing file systems on-demand within the LXC containers via autofs.

Let’s take a look at the steps involved in this process:

1. First, we have to configure autofs on the host machine. This includes defining autofs maps and specifying the file systems or shares that we want to make available to the containers. The configuration usually includes the mount point, the type of file system or share, and so on.
2. After configuring autofs, the shared resource is not automatically mounted. In fact, it is mounted on-demand when accessed by the LXC container. Hence, the file system or share is mounted into the container’s file system namespace only when needed. It is unmounted automatically when it is no longer in use.
3. Once inside the LXC container, the shared resource is just like as a regular directory within the container’s file system. Now, the container can access and use the shared files or directories just like local files and directories. This promotes easy integration of shared resources into the containerized environment.

Let us know in the comments if you need further information about using autofs to manage LXC Shares.

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