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Old 10-05-2006, 02:49 PM   #1
skrishnan_v
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NFS over NFS mount


Hi all,
we have about 16 linux computers(of various distributions) in my college lab. We have 3 NFS servers, each catering to a certain subset of students. All NFS mounts are accesible to all computers. Now, i want to add an one more NFS mount for shareable data. I can of course make a new computer(because we want a complete new HD for data only) as NFS server and update the necessary changes in all the rest 15.
However, i was wondering if it would be ok to do the following:
1. Take any of the existing NFS mounts, say /home of comp.1 which is exported as /nfs1.
2. add a subdirectory: data to this.
3. /data in turn is NFS mounted from the new computer comp4; this would be with aprropriate soft mount; so that if comp4 is not available for some reason; the rest at least works.

I have not tried this out; wanted to know opinions from experts before trying.
The advantage i see is that i do not have to make changes in all 15 computers!
I am nowhere near an expert on linux but i have a fair amount of experience! Still there is a chance that i made a blooper somewhere.
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Old 10-05-2006, 03:07 PM   #2
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I suspect that will slow things coming off the new computer quite a bit. The data will essentially have to be transfered twice. From comp4 to nfs server and then from nfs server to nfs client. Other than speed it should work.

What about just adding another drive to the current computer and adding a softlink within the nfs directory?


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