On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 12:59 +0100, Clayton wrote:
Is this normal? Shouldn't the intr option allow for the possibility of a NFS sever not being available, essentially pushing the mount attempts to the background, and silently mounting the NFS when the server comes available?
No, you're confusing it with soft. Reread the man page (e.g.): http://linux.die.net/man/5/nfs
I'll revisit this as soon as I can and change the option from hard to soft on all 3 machines.
Is this (using NFS server/client) a reasonable solution in a situation like this? Is there a better way to do this? (no central server, and wanting to share a partition on each drive across a small home network).
Well it's better not to design your network like this, with circular mounts, but it is possible.
I would prefer a central NFS server with clients linking in (which is what I have on my own home network), but in this case, that isn't so easy. The home network in this case is essentially 3 personal computers (for family members) that may or may not be on. They want to be able to easily access a share partition on each of the 3 computers from any one of the 3 computers... if there is a better/more reliable way to do this, I'd be happy to give it a go. They initially tried the Share feature in the file manager (Dolphin), but that was... unpredictable. YAST does this so much better.
I would suggest to use an small machine as a central point in in your network, acting as firewall, mail-hub, nfs-server, backup-server, etc etc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org