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From: Scott Mcdermott <smcdermott@questra.com>
To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@badula.org>
Cc: devnull@adc.idt.com, linuxmanagers@linuxmanagers.org,
	NFS@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: nfs client using autofs v4
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:48:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030109204805.GA1042@questra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301090117.h091HD426729@moisil.badula.org>

Ion Badulescu on Wed  8/01 20:17 -0500:
> > We would like to default all NFS mounts to use TCP and if not
> > available use UDP. This way all mounts coming from Network Appliance
> > will be TCP and the ones from the Linux Box will be UDP.
> 
> No, because autofs doesn't know anything about NFS. It simply calls the
> external mount program with the arguments you gave it.
> 
> What you need is a mount program which can autodetect what the server
> supports in terms of NFS service.

is there a way at runtime to detect if the client (running mount(8))
supports a TCP mount? This would have to be tested first before trying
to reach a server.


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-09 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08 23:24 nfs client using autofs v4 devnull
2003-01-09  1:17 ` Ion Badulescu
2003-01-09 20:48   ` Scott Mcdermott [this message]
2003-01-09 21:11     ` Ion Badulescu

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