The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: File::Glob::Automount
DSLIP: bdpha
description: Robust yet fast file globbing across autofs
userid: BBB (Rob Brown)
chapterid: 10 (File_Names_Systems_Locking)
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similar:
File::Glob
rationale:
This module combines File::Glob::bsd_glob and Unix::ConfigFile's
Unix::AutomountFile and Net::Ping to allow perl globbing to "work"
across nodes within an automounted directory.
1) Compatible with regular glob in that it behaves identically when
globbing through directory structures that don't involve autofs
partitions. (import ':globally' is safe.)
2) Avoids the problem of getting empty or missing matches from a
glob within a automounted directory when that mount point happens to
be gone (off, down, or just timed out). Also fixes the opendir on
such automount nodes.
3) Avoids that very nasty "10 minute choke" or kernel lock that
prevents you from being able to "kill -9" a process that accidently
attempted to resolve a path or node whose root path contains an
automount to a remote box that is offline or suddenly unreachable
from the client box.
4) Uses syncronous tcp SYN packets to detect remote reachability in
order to achieve parallel timeouts for multiple down or inaccessible
mount points to assist in determining the maximum availability
statuses in the minimum amount of real time.
This is already being using heavily in production. I just removed
the proprietary stuff to donate this for the benefit of the open
source comunity.
enteredby: BBB (Rob Brown)
enteredon: Tue Oct 22 06:27:43 2002 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
File::Glob::
::Automount bdpha Robust yet fast file globbing across autofs BBB
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