On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, 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. > > 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. >
Sounds good. We probably need to assign priorities in some sort of semi-democratic way, to these "larger than bug fix" tasks. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
