From: Alek O. Komarnitsky (N-CSC) (alek@ast.lmco.com)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 14:28:15 EDT
> From owner-hpux-admin@DutchWorks.nl Fri Jun 13 21:31 MDT 2003
> From: "Alek O. Komarnitsky (N-CSC)" <alek@ast.lmco.com>
>
> Most modern automounters (ex: Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX) have
> the ability to do replicated automount entries - i.e. you
> can specify more than one location, and it will mount
> whoever is closest/fastest/etc.
>
> On Solaris, this is taken one step further, and if the
> mount is a replicated READ-ONLY mount, it can auto-failover
> to another server if the first server goes down WHILE the
> mount point is being used. I.e. it does not have to be unmounted.
>
> This is really, really nice ... but it does not appear that
> HP-UX has this capability, based on the man page and also some
> actual testing on 11i.
>
> I just wanted to check with the hpux-admins to make sure I'm
> not missing something here and/or some esoteric patch that
> provides this capability - I did not see one available.
>
> Sure would be nice if this worked similar to Solaris.
>
> Thanx for any responses and I'll summerize back to the list,
> alek
> http://www.komar.org/
>
> P.S. Using AMD or other non-vendor automounter is NOT an option for us.
I didn't get any responses back on this, so I thought I would
try one more time ... and maybe someone from HP could comment
if feature could be added for a future release of the automounter?
Thanx,
alek
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