2008/10/15 Filipe Brandenburger filbranden@gmail.com:
Hi,
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automount is actually quite a good tool if you really need to do this kind of stuff, which in your case you will probably have to anyway. The setup with automount is actually good in that volumes will be kept mounted only while they're used (if you use a short enough timeout), and in your case it seems that they will be seldomly used, so you would not have NFS mounted filesystems most of the time.
agreed, I guess there's no other way.
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NFSv3 -> NFSv4 also looks good, but I would say this tends to be a more risky upgrade, since NFS3 is quite stable and NFS4 is still somewhat new and you may end up having some surprises with it. Personally I will still stick with NFSv3 for a while.
I'm currently reading http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~dpotter/howto/kerberos (ldap/kerberos/nfs4 howto), and I think I'll follow that, minus nfs4. I've taken a quick look at Directory Server, it seems nice but a bit overkill for the size of the network. Thx a lot for your advice. Laurent.