[CentOS] Shearing file systems on the network

Thu Jan 24 19:03:15 UTC 2008
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 at 11:01am, Peter Blajev wrote

> I have 4 systems and each one of them has a partition I'd like to be remotely
> accessible on the other 3 systems.
>
> In other words System1 has Partition1. Systems 2,3,4 should be able to
> remotely mount Partition1 from System1. Also System2 has Partition2. Then
> systems 1,3,4 should be able to remotely mount Partition2 from System2 and so
> on.
>
> I tried NFS and it works but only in the ideal world. If one of the systems
> goes down the whole NFS cross-mounting makes the other systems somewhat
> unstable. It's a known issue and I believe you guys are aware of it but I
> just had to see it myself.
>
> What would you recommend? What is the best practice for doing that?

NFS and automount.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF