But i want to ask you if there is any way to tell autofs
explicitly to use NFS even for local mounts. And, if it is not possible,
take this mail as a little hint or request-for-feature :-).
In Tru64 Unix, our cluster product relies on loopback NFS mounts to
file systems that might get relocated to a "failover" system. The
SCSI bus is shared between the two machines.
The mounts are done to an "alias" hostname. So, if the two nodes in
the cluster are server1 and server2, they could shift the IP alias
"server" back and forth. (Services are also moved around for load balancing,
preventitive maintainance, etc.)
The cluster folks didn't think that our automount would be clever enough
to realize that mounts from IP aliases might be local, so, I had to
add:
-p Uses local mounts for primary Internet addresses and NFS loopback
mounts for Internet alias addresses. Without this option, the
command's default behavior is to bypass NFS for all local Internet
addresses, including Internet alias addresses.
If anyone wants to add a command line option, maybe -p as above, and -P
to NFS mount *everything*.
-Ric Werme
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Eric (Ric) Werme | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compaq Computer Corp. | http://www.cyberportal.net/werme
