multihomed NFS automounts.

[Ian Kent]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Nils Philippsen wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:18, Jeremy A. Rosengren wrote:
> 
> > Question #1:  Does anybody know if multihomed NFS automounts are a 
> > feature destined to be included in future versions of util-linux?
> 
> Automounts are not a feature of util-linux but the autofs package. Any
> changes needed for multihomed setups should be done there, adding magic
> to mount isn't the thing to do IMO.
> 
> > Question #2:  Would anybody be interested in the patch we have that was 
> > easy to apply to util-linux-2.11y but doesn't seem to work out of the 
> > box with 2.12a?  The ex-employee did try to submit the patch to the 
> > upstream maintainers, but never received a response from them at the time.
> 
> I'd like to say that this is for the above reason, but I found the
> maintainer address unresponsive as well...
> 
> > Question #3:  Is this really supported and I just didn't find the magic 
> > incantation?
> 
> I don't think so. Instead of tweaking util-linux -- which is the wrong
> thing to do I think -- consider patching autofs. Whether "lowest
> response time" or "least number of hops as per traceroute" are an
> indicator to be used is debatable.

I dissagree, mount is the right place to do it as autofs simply calls 
mount and doesn't really have any busines playing here. In spite of that 
we've done it in autofs anyway.

Onward and downward .....

Ian