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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: Cross NFS mountings (was: how do other people deal with new man pages?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.230849.3101@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:08:49 GMT
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- Bruno Berstel writes
- [small munch...]
- > Right. But if I create /usr/local/{bin,lib,man,include,etc,sbin,...}
- on the
- > /local partition on one of the first Sun, and NFS mount it as
- /usr/local
- > on the other Sun, what do I put in the second Sun's /local ? Wouldn't
- it be
- > more sensible to create, say, /usr/local/{bin,lib,sbin} on one Sun
- and
- > /usr/local/{man,include,etc} on the other one ?
- >
- You can do that, but it means a lot of mount entries. If it all fits
- on one put it there. Call the other one /usr/scratch, export it to the
- network and give it permissions rwxrwxrwt and let people use it as
- temporary space with the understanding that it will NEVER be backed up.
-
- > Now my fear is : what will happen at boot time ? I had a rule of
- thumb (it
- > may be superstition) that said : "if B mounts a directory from A,
- boot A
- > before B". Now what do I do with cycles ?
- >
-
- Nah. Make sure that whatever shell you use for root isn't on the other
- machine (That wound is still healing...) and that whatever you need to
- boot single user is on the root partition. (Should be in /bin, and
- /etc)
-
- And in the fstab be sure that all nfs mounts are specified with the
- option bg for background. This will insure that if the other machine
- is down, it will try once and go on. (It will eventually give up.) If
- the other machine comes up reasonably soon, it will mount
- automatically, if not then you will have to 'mount -at nfs'
-