[osol-discuss] Re: Re: semonkey at opensolaris.org project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

[Darren J Moffat]

Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 
>> Martin Bochnig wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, he is partially right: First you have more mount points when
>>> staying SVR4 compliant with config dirs here and there.
>>> Second, the nfs client may not have /etc/opt/csw or /etc/opt/mrtx yet,
>>> and you need to mkdir them before you can mount.
>>
>> Huh ?  Thats that the automounter is for!
> 
> Huhh, really ??
> Still: 3 > 1.
> Will you deny that??

Okay so you have 3 mounts instead of 1.
That is 3 lines in one automount map in the nameservice - big deal.

Solaris unlike some other systems really doesn't have a problem scaling 
to thousands of client side mounts - personally I've see a system with 
at least 5000 client side mounts and that was 7 years ago!

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Darren J Moffat