Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:56:07 -0500 From: DARREND@novell.com (Darren Davis) To: hackers@freebsd.org, mmead@Glock.COM Subject: homedir mirroring nightly, with an nfs overlay? - Reply Message-ID: <s144757a.072@fromGW>
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It seems to me all you need to do is export a filesystem from Glock. Automount it from Neon, and have either a cron job or you copy the contents of Neon back to Glock. If you are trying to maintain a consistant name space(having pathnames identical for both machines), then you will have to do something a little more creative such as mount it on a temporary directory so that you can copy to the correct path. NFS is not capable of any explicit disconnect file semantics. I only know of a few filesystems capable of such feats with Coda (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/coda/Web/coda.html) being the premier research filesystem. Darren R. Davis Senior Software Engineer Novell, Inc.
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