From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 11 15:51:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA01129 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:51:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from novell.com ([147.2.128.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01120 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from INET-NJ-Message_Server by fromGW with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:48:26 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 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 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.