From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: [NFS] making the 'addr=' mount option an address hint
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:22:26 +0800 (WST)
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Olaf Kirch wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:37:50PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > I would not at all support doing this sort of thing in autofs. If it is
> > to be done, it should be done by the mount program.
> 
> That would make mount awfully slow, and we're suffering from excessive
> boot times already. Besides, mount can see just the current state,
> a daemon would be able to collect statistics over a period of time and
> average it.

That's an interesting thought.

I've already given some thought to maintaining persistent connections to 
servers to help with this in autofs. Once again I haven't been able to do 
anything about it yet.

Ian