[Freeipa-users] IPA Automount cross-location support

[Rob Crittenden]

Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
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> On Thu, September 13, 2012 16:46, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Ondrej Valousek wrote:
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>>> Sorry, the parameter mentioned below has already been implemented :-)
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>> He wants to be able to share a common set of maps between locations
>> rather than having to duplicate them across each location.
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>> We're limited by the LDAP clients at this point because they just query
>> a basedn and can't really do anything complex.
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>> Using a virtual view is one of the options we've considered, but
>> honestly we haven't spent a lot of time looking into this yet. The problem with trying to virtually
>> add things to a location is it could get very complex very quickly and either hamper performance,
>> debugging, or both very quickly.
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> I see. Is using virtual views in 389-ds considered slow? I suppose it depends some on how complex
> the filters behind the view is written...

Nothing is free but I'm not sure how much overhead comes with views.

We'd be doing this on-the-fly combining any number of different maps 
into potentially multiple locations. It could be very complex and this 
makes my spider sense is tingle.

rob