autofs should honor admin supplied server weights in maps in RHEL
Issue
- Automount supports more than one server per mount (i.e. for load-balancing), however the algorithm used to decide which server will be chosen does not allow for the administrator to guarantee which server will be chosen.
- This precludes the Disaster-Recovery use-case for an NFS server, that should only be chosen by automount "if and only if" the production NFS server is unreachable. Otherwise it should never be used.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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