From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 13 19:45:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2F516A402 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:45:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (caliban.seekingfire.com [24.89.83.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51A913C48E for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:45:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3D5104E6; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:44:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:44:57 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070213194457.GI543@seekingfire.com> References: <20070212170553.GA543@seekingfire.com> <54db43990702121104x7aea5f53tab517d32e85c9b19@mail.gmail.com> <20070212194204.GD543@seekingfire.com> <20070212194728.GE543@seekingfire.com> <45D1ADE3.1010802@dial.pipex.com> <20070213143848.GH543@seekingfire.com> <45D1D4E6.5090801@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45D1D4E6.5090801@dial.pipex.com> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/personal/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers X-Tillman-rules: yes he does User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: Mounting multiple NFS shares to the same point 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: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:45:01 -0000 On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:10:30PM +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Tillman Hodgson wrote: > Yes, that's certainly an issue. Presumably you can lock down the > directory perms to be root only or root/operator though. Depending on > setup and money, backing up the backups to tape would give more safeguards. Definitely. The NFS appliance is the staging area before the backups hit a DLT4 library. > Can you mount sub-directories from the share as separate mounts? E.g. > create simple directories called daily, weekly and monthly on the share, > and mount each separately? Then you'd just have to move some files > around rather than re-create the share. Plus with a single share you > don't have to decide in advance how much space each specific directory > needs. Hey, there's a good idea. My effective directory layout remains the same but the seperate mounts means that I won't run into multiple mounts on the same mount point. I just tried it and it works great. Thanks, -T -- Page 461: Tools that are simple enough to use the first day are often a real pain after the first month. - Harley Hahn, _The Unix Companion_