On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 09:17 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> "Stephen Biggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> >> Behalf Of Jim Carter
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:07 PM
> >> To: Stephen Biggs
> >> Cc: [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [autofs] Direct mount newbie question
> ...
> > The only time this becomes a problem is when it tries to open
> > /home/.junk.  This triggers the automounter to go across the net to find
> > the directory in the map.  I may be wrong about any NFS chatter. In any
> > case, this access of the map across the network can take up to 300 ms to
> > query and then return a failure.
> >
> > It has nothing to do with which user is running. The problem is that "Q"
> > is stupidly written and does this futile search many, MANY times in the
> > running of a job, not taking no for an answer. Again, as I said before,
> > I have no control over this application and cannot fix its ridiculous
> > behavior.
> 
> Ian, this should be fixed by the negative lookup caching, right?  I take
> it that's not in 5.0.3.

Maybe the function isn't quite right.
Maybe I'm not marking it as a failed mount because it isn't found in the
map, which isn't very sensible but I'll bet that's what it is.

Ian


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