Huw Lynes wrote:
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..
Interesting -- I didn't even look in /usr/share/doc/autofs-4.1.3 since
this doesn't work in FC2 for a few particular automounts that I have. I
assumed there was still no support because of that.
Thanks,
-- jeremy
