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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: multiple servers per automount
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:57:16 -0700
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To: Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@voicenet.com>
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Rich Sahlender wrote:
> This is probably a faq but I havn't seen it asked in recent months...
> 
> I have a situation where two network appliance filers with identical
> file systems are used to serve read only mounts for CAD software tools.
> Both Solaris and HP-UX support an automount like:
> 
> cadtool	-ro	tools1,tools2:/vol/vol1/tools/&
> 
> and will automatically switch to the other server if the initial mount
> becomes unavailable.
> 
> Last time I was able to check Linux autofs did not support the failover
> and complained about the syntax. Has this changed or are there plans to
> support the syntax above with failover for read only mounts?
> 

This should not be an autofs feature but an NFS feature, for obvious
reasons: it's equally applicable for static mounts.

Furhtermore, failover HAS to be done at the NFS layer.

The fact that Slowlaris does it in autofs is not a good motivation --
it's idiotic design.

	-hpa