Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1486 mails)

[Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@xxxxxxxxx>]

AutoFS might be a good option too, it will mount the share on demand
(each time a user requests to access the mount point.

Regards,
Ciro

2009/7/29, Joseph Loo <joseph.loo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> James Pifer wrote:
> > > >
> > > I assume that your nfs server is the same machine. If it is, just change
> > > the address to 127.0.0.1 and it will mount your machine. I personally
> > > like to make things a bit more symbolic by using a host name. My machine
> > > has in the host table
> > > 127.0.0.1   localhost orion1
> > >
> > > I just use orion1:/storage
> >
> > The NFS server(s) are on other machines. Possibly dumb question, what
> > would the point be of mounting nfs on the same machine?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James
> The reason is that I use autofs. This allows the nfs mounts to occur on
> a user by user basis. A user might be on the local machine or another
> machine. That way, the data follows the user not the machine. So if you
> couple ldap with the autofs, you can have a central area containing the
> user password and mount location. Then you can log onto any machine
> using ldap and your home directory will be mounted automatically. In
> addition, autofs allows you to have secondary servers to provide your
> data. If the primary server goes down, the secondary server will be
> taken over.
>
> You might want to change your option to soft, intr as part of your mount
> options. This should allow the nfs mounts to be interrupted. If you
> loose the mount, can you do a remount to get the data?
>
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