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AIX Version 4.3 Differences Guide

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7.14.2.5 Indirect Maps<br />

An indirect map uses a substitution value of a key to establish the association<br />

between a mount point on the client and a directory on the server. Indirect maps<br />

are useful for accessing specific file systems like home directories. The<br />

auto_home map is an example of an indirect map. Lines in indirect maps have<br />

the following syntax:<br />

key [ mount-options ] location<br />

Key<br />

key is a simple name (no slashes) in an indirect map.<br />

Mount-options<br />

The mount-options are the options you want to apply to this particular mount.<br />

They are required only if they differ from the map default.<br />

Location<br />

The location is the location of the file system, specified as server:pathname.<br />

An example of a typical auto_home map is:<br />

dale<br />

wombat:/export/home/dale<br />

victor<br />

taipan:/export/home/victor<br />

andrew<br />

emu:/export/home/andrew<br />

swamy<br />

wallaby:/export/home/swamy<br />

julia<br />

redback:/export/home/julia<br />

tony<br />

goanna:/export/home/tony<br />

george -rw,nosuid koala:/export/home/george<br />

As an example, assume that the previous map is on host echidna. If user george<br />

has an entry in the password database specifying his home directory as<br />

/home/george, then whenever he logs into computer echidna, autofs mounts the<br />

directory/export/home/george residing on the computer koala.<br />

7.1<strong>4.3</strong> NFS Server Performance Enhancement (<strong>4.3</strong>.2)<br />

The NFS server performance of <strong>AIX</strong> <strong>4.3</strong>.2 is enhanced with the implementation of<br />

a vnode cache in the JFS component of the kernel. The cache enables the NFS<br />

server code to translate an NFS file handle to a local vnode structure more<br />

efficiently than previous versions of <strong>AIX</strong>. As a result, the NFS server code spends<br />

less time holding a VFS lock word, which in turn, increases the available<br />

throughput of the NFS server.<br />

190 <strong>AIX</strong> <strong>Version</strong> <strong>4.3</strong> <strong>Differences</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>

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