From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Dec 10 14:22:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0167837B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:22:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from gpo.schools.net.au (gpo.schools.net.au [203.2.135.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00F943ED4 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:22:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joshua@shallow.net) Received: from yello.shallow.net (yello.shallow.net [203.18.243.120]) by gpo.schools.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042BAAF6C5; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:22:13 +1100 (EST) Received: by yello.shallow.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 037842A6B; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:22:10 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:22:10 +1100 From: Joshua Goodall To: "Ronald G. Minnich" Cc: Michael Grant , freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <20021210222210.GG98967@roughtrade.net> References: <200212100846.gBA8kBO08833@splat.grant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:25:42AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > NFS cross-mounts again will do > > no they won't. Old idea, bad idea, don't do it. NFS is not robust enough > for this. * Michael Grant didn't write that. I did. * You've left out the statement that followed it: "There are some nasty failure modes associated with doing this ... " * NFS probably is robust enough for some environments. A suggestion I was given to remember with cross-mounts is to use soft/interruptible, and always login as root directly (rather than trying to sudo from a user account that may have just become unavailable in /home). > ron > > what you're talking about? To my knowledge, one cannot cross-mount > > with nfs. > > oh yeah you can. It's just very bad to do this. -- Joshua Goodall joshua@roughtrade.net "Your byte hit ratio is weak, old man" "If you cache me now, I will dump more core than you can possibly imagine" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message