On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "r" == raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > r> But the logic is fairly simple in the sense that autofs will only > r> update it's map when it attempts a mount. > > I understand. As I understand things, fresh data will be fetched if > it attempts a mount from cached data which fails. The most > significant implication of this is that you cannot smoothly migrate > from one server to another by making a copy and then changing the LDAP > map; the clients won't stop using the old server as long as they can > still mount from it.
You can send a HUP signal to the daemon to force a map re-read as well. > > Not a big deal as long as you know about it. > > r> I'm afraid you'll have to wait for the LDAP patches to be merged. > > No problem. I'm always happy to test things out; are these patches > available anywhere? They've been posted to the list but I've not had a chance to look at them yet. There are a couple of LDAP requests (and associated patches). Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
