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

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