From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: making the mountpoints visible all the time (fwd)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:52:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FBE6D0D.3070307@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0311211453250.6131-100000@wombat.indigo.net.au>
Ian Kent wrote:
>
> The above works that way without the update.
>
> I'm not sure that a periodic update really gets us much. Since in most
> sites maps change infrequently.
>
> On the other hand at work we run a cron every night on all our machines to
> trigger an update of the maps.
>
> So I'm on the fence here?
>
At some sites the maps change rather frequently. I'd let it be a
adjustable option, however, I think few sites would want to have more
than 24 hour delay, ever; most sites wouldn't want more than a few
hours, and some sites wouldn't want more than 5 minutes.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-21 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-19 8:13 making the mountpoints visible all the time (fwd) Ian Kent
2003-11-19 16:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-21 0:51 ` Ian Kent
2003-11-21 1:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-21 6:59 ` Ian Kent
2003-11-21 8:49 ` Ruslan U. Zakirov
2003-11-22 7:14 ` Ian Kent
2003-11-21 19:52 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-11-21 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-22 7:19 ` Ian Kent
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-17 5:05 Chris Croswhite
2003-11-17 5:32 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-02 13:49 ` Ian Kent
2003-11-16 16:05 Ian Kent
2003-11-16 19:58 ` Alexander Macdonald
2003-11-17 2:53 ` Ian Kent
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