On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Ian Kent wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Jim Carter wrote: > > Item 3 -- we did the NIS lookup on this one entry because the TTL had > > expired, and NIS gave a different answer than the cache, so every cached > > entry from that map is probably wrong. But there's no need to read the > > whole map; just clear the cached entries that came from it (except the one > > just read, known to be up to date). > > One thing I had in mind with this is that map updates are generally small, > a few records or so.
Only a few records change at any one time. But which ones changed? The only way the client (automounter) can find out is to read the whole map. Even NIS itself uploads the whole map every time to its slave servers, although NIS+ has an incremental update feature. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key) _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
