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 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
