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I've recently been staring at the website for a product called Dropbox, which looks to be a complete clone of iFolder, but deployed for consumer use for a monthly fee.

I was wondering if Novell (or anyone else for that matter) had plans to create a public iFolder farm that people could subscribe to.

iFolder has been around a lot longer than the competitor. I would think this would be a great opportunity for SOHO customers and consumers to use iFolder.

I have an IBM x335 Suse 10.2 system running autofs {autofs5-5.0.2-0.3} client (indirect) mounting ~400 Solaris systems mounts The Suse box runs scripts across the mounts to read data from them via cron jobs. I am seeing various problems - and somewhat intermittent? issues where the job fails and reports 'no such file or directory' for the mount point it's going to. I login to the Suse box, cd to the directory and it mounts fine. almost looks like a timing issue so I've tried some different options in auto.master for the mounts in question. Using the following options: --timeout=0 -ro,intr,soft ...this maybe helping, though I do get some occasional NFS Stale file handles occasionally, but I think this occurs in cases when /etc/dfs/dfstab|sharetab gets re-written on the system serving the mount point.

I'm not sure setting the timeout to 0 (don't umount) is such a good thing to do. Will I run into longer term performance problems, etc? I'm wondering if others have seen similar or if there is a bug in the version of autofs that I'm using, etc?

thanx