Rich Sahlender wrote:
> This is probably a faq but I havn't seen it asked in recent months...
>
> I have a situation where two network appliance filers with identical
> file systems are used to serve read only mounts for CAD software tools.
> Both Solaris and HP-UX support an automount like:
>
> cadtool -ro tools1,tools2:/vol/vol1/tools/&
>
> and will automatically switch to the other server if the initial mount
> becomes unavailable.
>
> Last time I was able to check Linux autofs did not support the failover
> and complained about the syntax. Has this changed or are there plans to
> support the syntax above with failover for read only mounts?
>
This should not be an autofs feature but an NFS feature, for obvious
reasons: it's equally applicable for static mounts.
Furhtermore, failover HAS to be done at the NFS layer.
The fact that Slowlaris does it in autofs is not a good motivation --
it's idiotic design.
-hpa
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