From: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: multiple servers per automount
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:28:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F848163.2050803@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F845E0C.7020801@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>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.
>
>
*Ahem*. Solaris has had NFS client failover since 2.6. Linux is still
playing catch up in this arena.
Failover is not handled in the automount layer, but rather passed on to
nfs layer itself. man mount_nfs.
Mike Waychison
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-08 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-08 17:24 multiple servers per automount Rich Sahlender
2003-10-08 18:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-10-08 20:43 ` Rich Sahlender
2003-10-08 21:28 ` Mike Waychison [this message]
2003-10-09 3:07 ` Ian Kent
2003-10-09 18:23 ` Mike Waychison
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-09 18:45 Ogden, Aaron A.
2003-10-09 19:00 ` Mike Waychison
2003-10-10 1:08 ` Ian Kent
2003-10-09 21:20 Ogden, Aaron A.
2003-10-09 21:36 ` Mike Waychison
2003-10-10 1:16 ` Ian Kent
2003-10-10 1:15 ` Ian Kent
2003-10-09 22:07 Ogden, Aaron A.
2003-10-10 15:16 Ogden, Aaron A.
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