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I'm running Mountain Lion on a new iMac. I need it to maintain a persistent connection to a NAS drive. However, I am finding regular lost connections -- as reported by iTunes and other applications.
In researching a solution, I have discovered automount
and it seems like a good solution to this problem. I have noted that there is a field in autofs.conf
called AUTOMOUNT_TIMEOUT
which is currently set to 3600 seconds.
According to man autofs.conf
:
AUTOMOUNT_TIMEOUT
The number of seconds after which an automounted file system will be unmounted if it hasn't been referred to within that period of time. The default is 10 minutes (600 seconds). This is equivalent to the -t option in automount(8).
Since i would like a persistent connection, is there any reason not to set this to a larger number, say 3600000 or likewise. Is there some reason why I shouldn't do this?
Thank you to DB for the reference to the man page. Just for the record, I added a link to Apple White Paper that is the source of my info. – Hephaestus – 2013-02-04T18:37:31.373