On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Trond Myklebust wrote: > må den 18.07.2005 Klokka 21:54 (+0200) skreiv Olaf Kirch: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:37:50PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > 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. > > > > That would make mount awfully slow, and we're suffering from excessive > > boot times already. Besides, mount can see just the current state, > > a daemon would be able to collect statistics over a period of time and > > average it. > > It would be slow only in the case where you have multiple ip addresses > on the server as you would probe them all instead of just probing one as > we do now.
Supporting replicated server mounts can certainly be slow. The problem in deciding what timeout to use. A short timeout can yield false negatives and a longer timeout slows the whole process heaps. Ian
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