On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Ian Kent wrote: > > Good question. > > I merged a patch in 4.1.1 that provided replicated server type behaviour. > The point bieng that it needs to deal with host specs like > host1(10),host2(5),host3 and so on. The point of it is to select the best > available host to mount from. To do this we have an rpc_ping function. It > is set to time out fairly quickly. All the mount requests pass through > this code and if none (one in this case) is not available it return a fail > and doesn't attempt the mount. >
Indeed, to my knowledge (anyone got more info), this has only been tested against Linux servers so it's entirely possible that the rpc_ping needs more work to function against other OS servers. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
