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From: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
To: cfeist@redhat.com
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net
Subject: Re: 	Problem with rpc_ping times, permission denied mounts, etc.
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:11:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4201420D.9040209@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4201347A.6000605@redhat.com>

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Chris Feist wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> Looking at Sun's documentation it doesn't appear that they take into
> account ping times when using automounter maps.  It looks like they just
> sort by network proximity and then weight. Would it make sense to remove
> the rpc_ping requests and only use network proximity and weight.
> 

IIRC, Solaris 'network proximity' is defined from closest to farthest:

1) Localhost
2) On the same subnet
3) rpc_ping times

> Also, it seems like it would be best to return all of mounts from the
> get_best_mounts function in order from best to worst.  Then, when it's
> time to mount the directories we can try the first and if we get
> permission denied or it isn't there we can fail over to the second, etc.
>  As opposed to what happens now if the best host has nfs temporarily
> disabled (or the wrong permissions set) the whole directory fails to mount.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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> autofs@linux.kernel.org
> http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-02 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-02 20:13 Problem with rpc_ping times, permission denied mounts, etc Chris Feist
2005-02-02 21:11 ` Mike Waychison [this message]
2005-02-03  1:13 ` Ian Kent

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