On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 08:25 -0500, Peter Staubach wrote:
> Ian Kent wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Unprivileged ports and/or UDP are not viable options for us, so I am
> >> forced to increase the timeout from 5 minutes to 24 hours, which in
> >> practice means they are always mounted.  We have about 400 automounted
> >> filesystems, so the only long term solution for us is to try to coalesce
> >> them to less than 100.  Very painful.
> >>     
> >
> > Understood. We had similar constraints at my last employer.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any work being actively done on this.
> > Nobody that cares has any time at the moment.
> >
> >   
> 
> Actually, there is work on going to reduce the number of connections 
> from the
> client to the server from one per mount to one per client server 
> combination.
> Solaris has always done this and it works out quite well in practice.

Excellent.
Tell me more?

Ian


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