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. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF