This feature is not supported in autofs. However, in the source
distribution of autofs there is a patch that can be applied to mount so
that mount will parse out these multiple machine names and just try to use
the first one.
This is not an ideal solution but at least it allows a linux box to
participate in a heterogenous network where there are other machines (Sun,
HP etc) that do support and use this feature of autofs, without having to
change all your autofs maps to support linux.
Peter
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On 2/18/99, at 3:18 AM, Frithjof Anders wrote:
>Thus spoke Michael Newlyn Blake on 18-Feb-99 :
>> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> > I think the syntax is something like:
>>> > * machine1,machine2:/dir/&
>>> No, it is a (key,value) type lookup; therefore having two entries with
>>> the same key is just plain WRONG.
>>
>> Actually, I think she's refering to the way Solaris does autofs. The
>> comma seperated list of hostnames is evaluated by autofs itself, not
>> passed along to mount. The hostnames are passed along to seperate mount
>> requests, providing a sort of failover. (For example, two nfs servers
>> providing access to identical filesystems. If one stops responding,
>> Solaris will try to force a remount from the secondary server.)
>>
>> A cool feature, but probably not supported in Linux autofs. (Or is
it?)
>
>That would be very nice, if that is supported in autofs. Good
>old amd, which we run on our linux boxes in the pre autofs days (1994 -
1998)
>would do that for you.
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