fstab vs autofs

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What exactly is the advantage of using autofs
over an entry or entries in /etc/fstab ?
I've always used autofs for mounting a remote directory,
but on going over to Fedora-14 I decided to read
the documentation on this, eg
<http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s04.html#mounting_remote_dirs>
and now I'm not sure why I have been using autofs.

Incidentally, the sample /etc/auto.master in Fedora-14
ends with the line
	+auto.master
but I've been unable to find any explanation of this.

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