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.
krishnan
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