We have been doing some more testing with the autofs since yesterday. We
found the submount example from Richard Henderson (in the Automounter
HOWTO docs) that does the /nfs/host/disk to work assuming all filesystems
are exported /host/disk works for us nicely as 99% of our filesystems are
using this naming scheme. We just have three files (/etc/auto.master,
/etc/autofs/nfs and /etc/autofs/nfs.sub) now each with a line in them and
they are identical on all our 40+ machines. The only thing I am not very
thrilled about is the number of automount processes that get started up
when a large number of these disks are accessed at the same time.
Chandra.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Eric Werme USG wrote:
>
> "Chandra R. Chegireddy" wrote:
> >
> > With the sun solaris, compaq tru64 and SGI IRIX autofs and automounter,
> > we have a NIS map of about 150 filesystems that are sent out our server to
> > all clients using the direct map method.
>
> A direct map of 150 entires?! You're insane!
>
> Heh, heh, heh. We're just as insane. Even more so:
>
> $ mount -e | grep pid | wc
> 229 3140 30367
>
> Most of those are direct maps!
>
> Our admins split things up between five separate automount (we don't have
> autofs yet). Oops - seven!
>
> -Ric Werme
>
Chandra R. Chegireddy
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