docs: filesystems: convert automount-support.txt to ReST

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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ba7e2f2bf9aa2c7096772f5e7e8e609cb5fce07c.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
=================
Automount Support
=================
Support is available for filesystems that wish to do automounting
support (such as kAFS which can be found in fs/afs/ and NFS in
fs/nfs/). This facility includes allowing in-kernel mounts to be
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also be requested by userspace.
======================
IN-KERNEL AUTOMOUNTING
In-Kernel Automounting
======================
See section "Mount Traps" of Documentation/filesystems/autofs.rst
Then from userspace, you can just do something like:
Then from userspace, you can just do something like::
[root@andromeda root]# mount -t afs \#root.afs. /afs
[root@andromeda root]# ls /afs
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[root@andromeda root]# ls /afs/cambridge/afsdoc/
ChangeLog html LICENSE pdf RELNOTES-1.2.2
And then if you look in the mountpoint catalogue, you'll see something like:
And then if you look in the mountpoint catalogue, you'll see something like::
[root@andromeda root]# cat /proc/mounts
...
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#afsdoc. /afs/cambridge.redhat.com/afsdoc afs rw 0 0
===========================
AUTOMATIC MOUNTPOINT EXPIRY
Automatic Mountpoint Expiry
===========================
Automatic expiration of mountpoints is easy, provided you've mounted the
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hung.
(2) When a new mountpoint is created in the ->d_automount method, add
the mnt to the list using mnt_set_expiry()
the mnt to the list using mnt_set_expiry()::
mnt_set_expiry(newmnt, &afs_vfsmounts);
(3) When you want mountpoints to be expired, call mark_mounts_for_expiry()
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same expiration list.
=======================
USERSPACE DRIVEN EXPIRY
Userspace Driven Expiry
=======================
As an alternative, it is possible for userspace to request expiry of any

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locking
directory-locking
automount-support
caching/index
porting