[CentOS] Shearing file systems on the network

Thu Jan 24 23:28:55 UTC 2008
Pete Geenhuizen <pgeenhuizen at pobox.homeunix.net>


Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 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.
>
I what I'm using and it works just fine.

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