From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Nye Liu <nyet@mrv.com>, autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "Use bind instead of nfs if host is localhost" feature is broken? removed?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:27:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7FF5D2.3080107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299979935.2906.5.camel@perseus>
On 03/12/2011 05:32 PM, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 15:59 -0800, Nye Liu wrote:
>> I have been relying on the behavior that
>>
>> foo host:/export/foo
>>
>> uses 'bind' if host is localhost, and 'nfs' otherwise...
>>
>> i.e. if i am on the machine "host", /export/foo is mounted on /mnt/foo using
>> bind, but if i am not on "host", host:/export/foo is mounted on /mnt/foo
>> using nfs.
>>
>> But the latest version of autofs no longer does that.
>
> What latest version?
>
I believe this is related to a change in the network layer in Linux,
which breaks the localhost test not just for autofs but for almost any
application which uses the same, portable technique for determining the
localness of a host address.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-15 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-10 23:59 "Use bind instead of nfs if host is localhost" feature is broken? removed? Nye Liu
2011-03-13 1:32 ` Ian Kent
2011-03-15 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-03-16 4:33 ` Nye Liu
2011-03-16 22:42 ` Nye Liu
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