I do not understand it - I have heard that using indirect maps can cause unwanted NFS chattering on the network and that negative lookups are supposed to handle this. But this chattering I can only imagine when using wildcards like /home auto.home with auto.home containing something like: * nfsserver:/vol/vol0/users/&
This way, if an application check for the existence of say /home/file - the automounter must ask nfsserver for existence of this file every time the application asks. But if there are no wildcards in the indirect map and all valid entries are explicitly listed, no nfs chattering occurs as autofs knows directly that the mount attempt for /home/file is invalid as there is no "file" record in the auto.home map. Am I right? If yes, that would be a serious argument against using wildcards in the automount maps..... Ondrej _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
