On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:18:20 -0500 "Jeremy A. Rosengren" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry for the detail, I want to make sure my question is understood :) > > At the office, we use NIS automounts extensively. Quite often, we'll > have the same data mirrored in multiple offices, located in different > physical buildings. The automounter in Solaris supports multihomed > automount maps, so that a client machine will try to mount the closest > server (ie, on its subnet) first before trying others. For example: > > #ypcat -k auto_project > project1 fileserver1,fileserver2:/vol/vol0/data/project1 > It looks to me like this functionality is already contained in recent releases of autofs. From /usr/share/doc/autofs-4.1.3/README.replicated-server Supported forms for mount paths are: Normal single-host (these are unchanged) <path> host:/path/path Multiple replicated hosts, same path: <path> host1,host2,hostn:/path/path This will do an initial RPC call with a .1 second timeout to all hosts to find best match. If this fails, it will try a 10 second timeout, if this fails it takes the first host. Multiple hosts, some with same path, some with another <path> host1,host2:/blah host3:/some/other/path Works as expected Multiple replicated hosts, different (potentially) paths: <path> host1:/path/pathA host2:/path/pathB Same as above with RPC calls.. -- | Huw Lynes | The Moving Picture Company | | System Administrator | 127 Wardour Street | |.........................| London, W1F 0NL |
