må den 18.07.2005 Klokka 14:24 (-0400) skreiv Jeff Layton:
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 11:36 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > There's nothing preventing it from working, but what is stopping you
> > from developing a fully automatic version?
> 
> Nothing is stopping that, but if we're going to do so much in the mount
> program, there's probably no point in doing all of this in autofs. Why
> do RPC pings at all in autofs if we're going to turn right around and do
> them again in the mount program? For mounting over a WAN (for instance)
> the ping checks could really add up to a substantial delay in mounting.

I would not at all support doing this sort of thing in autofs. If it is
to be done, it should be done by the mount program.

Cheers,
 Trond


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