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Chris Feist wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> Looking at Sun's documentation it doesn't appear that they take into
> account ping times when using automounter maps.  It looks like they just
> sort by network proximity and then weight. Would it make sense to remove
> the rpc_ping requests and only use network proximity and weight.
> 

IIRC, Solaris 'network proximity' is defined from closest to farthest:

1) Localhost
2) On the same subnet
3) rpc_ping times

> Also, it seems like it would be best to return all of mounts from the
> get_best_mounts function in order from best to worst.  Then, when it's
> time to mount the directories we can try the first and if we get
> permission denied or it isn't there we can fail over to the second, etc.
>  As opposed to what happens now if the best host has nfs temporarily
> disabled (or the wrong permissions set) the whole directory fails to mount.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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