On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Mike Waychison wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> >This should not be an autofs feature but an NFS feature, for obvious
> >reasons: it's equally applicable for static mounts.
> >
> >Furhtermore, failover HAS to be done at the NFS layer.
> >
> >The fact that Slowlaris does it in autofs is not a good motivation --
> >it's idiotic design.
Ohh .. Nasty .... mmmmaaahhh.
> >
> >
>
> *Ahem*. Solaris has had NFS client failover since 2.6. Linux is still
> playing catch up in this arena.
> Failover is not handled in the automount layer, but rather passed on to
> nfs layer itself. man mount_nfs.
>
On a related not Mike.
Is the number of NFS mounts on Solaris unlimited or is it table driven?
I can't find a reference to it anywhere.
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