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- From: RABINOWITZ@BEAR.COM (Ari)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: NFS Client volume names.
- Message-ID: <29733@ursa.bear.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:59:13 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.110620.7162@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu> <1992Nov17.130914.3992@arizona.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: leonard@telcom.arizona.edu's message of 17 Nov 92 20:09:13 GMT
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- In <1992Nov17.130914.3992@arizona.edu> leonard@telcom.arizona.edu writes:
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- | In article <1992Nov17.110620.7162@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu|, smith@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu writes:
- | ||
- | | 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:
- |
- | Just mount the devices with $ MU NFSMOUNT node::"mount-point" logicalname,
- | and have your users reference `logicalname:' instead of NFSn:.
- |
- | 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.
-
- DEC worked this out in a recent version of it Distributed File
- Server (DFS) product by adding a qualifier /DEVICE= to the mount
- command which allows you to specify the device number created.
-
- They also modified the default so that the ones which you dont
- specify start at 1000, to avoid overlap. This solved the problem
- nicely.
-
- Does TGV have any plans to implement something like this for their
- NFS client? It would avoid the problems which the original poster
- talked about.
-
- Ari
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