On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 07:03 +0800, Khor, Boon Pin wrote: > Hi all , > > I have experiencing some inconsistency problem in autofs4 ( SLES9 SP3 > , kernel is 2.6.5 ) , sometime the mount daemon just died unexpected , > causing some mount point can not be mounted ( when cd to that directory > , it will have "no such file or directory ) , in fact , restart the > autofs daemon will caused some other mount point to be failed . I am > wondering , that is this problem the known issue in autofs4 ? if yes , > is there any plan to back port the autofs5 to 2.6.5 ? the patch is only > available for 2.6.9 and above .
It's possible but 2.6.9 is itself quite old. > > What is the pro and cons of using --ghost in autofs ? will it make the > client heavy loaded ? Depends on the number of entries in you map. A thousand entries should be ok but ten thousand entries will be a big overhead on the system. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
