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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Darlene D Choontanom <dchoontanom@raytheon.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: weighting factor?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:34:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F00BE4.8020205@themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFA7BAAD33.0A4CD567-ON8825759F.00604D01-8825759F.006168EB@mck.us.ray.com>

Darlene D Choontanom wrote:
> Hi, all--
> 
> Apologies in advance if this has been asked before, but I'm running into 
> issues with a shared NIS auto.home file we're trying to stand up between 
> two remote sites.  My clients are a mixture of Solaris and RHEL 3 & 4 
> machines.  A sample entry in question reads:

This won't work how you want in RHEL-3 but should work in reasonably
recent versions of autofs on RHEL-4.

> 
> foo     thisserver:/export/home4/& \
>         thatserver:/export/home10/&
> 
> The Sun clients work fine, automounting the server closest to them 
> geographically.  The Linux boxes, however, all seem to want to mount 
> "thatserver", regardless of how far the distance is between them.  I tried 
> weighting them:
> 
> foo     thisserver(1):/export/home4/& \
>         thatserver(9):/export/home10/&
> 
> But while that seems to work okay for some of my RHEL boxes, it doesn't 
> seem to get recognized on others.  I'd like to try to restart the 
> automounter on the non-working clients, but since they're all in 
> production, it'll be a little tricky if I don't want to impact my users.
> 
> Is this a known problem, or is there a fix?  The weighting factor really 
> will only fix the clients closest to "thisserver" ; I'd rather not force 
> the clients close to "thatserver" to have to go to a remote box if there's 
> a closer one they should be mounting, instead.
> 
> Thanks--
> Darlene
> 
> ---
> dchoontanom@raytheon.com                                        Raytheon 
> Company
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> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-23  6:34 UTC|newest]

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2009-04-21 17:43 weighting factor? Darlene D Choontanom
2009-04-23  6:34 ` Ian Kent [this message]

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