From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 14:46:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADC616A41F for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 14:46:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54D343D1F for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 14:46:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4NEk1fs075627; Mon, 23 May 2005 09:46:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j4NEk0iM075624; Mon, 23 May 2005 09:46:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 09:46:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: Ryan Winograd In-Reply-To: <4291531B.6050906@houston.rr.com> Message-ID: <20050523094018.Y47072@mail.goinet.com> References: <4291531B.6050906@houston.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfs: fstab or automount X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:46:09 -0000 Are they all going to be running FreeBSD, or do you have a mix of 'nix's running? The automounter for osx for example is incompatible with FreeBSD's automounter. I can't speak for Linux, but the possibility exists. If you don't have a redundancy environment set up for /home to automount from point a, and if it fails, try from point b, then just use fstab. That, and use a hostname rather than an IP address in fstab. That way, if box a goes down, you can change an entry in DNS and now box b can server nfs. On Sun, 22 May 2005, Ryan Winograd wrote: > If I set up a network in which the /home directory is shared to all client > computers, is it better to have the clients mount the nfs share in fstab or > to let automount handle the mounting? What are the pros and cons of each? > > Thnx in advance for all input, > Ryan w > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >