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- Subject: Re: NFS Client volume names.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.130914.3992@arizona.edu>
- From: leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:09:13 MST
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- In article <1992Nov17.110620.7162@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu>, smith@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu writes:
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- | We have a number of NFS volumes that are mounted automatically at boot-up.
- | Sometimes a machine is not available and the volume numbers (e.g. NFS3:) for
- | the others nolonger the smae as they usually are. Does someone have a script
- | of some description that allows a logical name to be given to each volume in
- | an invariant fashion? I have now had about five calls in two hours
- | complaining that 'all my files have gone from NFS4:...' etc. wheras in fact
- | they are all there, just on NFS3:
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- Just mount the devices with $ MU NFSMOUNT node::"mount-point" logicalname,
- and have your users reference `logicalname:' instead of NFSn:.
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- The one problem I can see is that entries in the system batch and print queues
- would have a problem with the physical device name changing on them. Don't
- know quite how you would work around that.
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- Aaron
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