Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:22:10 +1100 From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> To: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> Cc: Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org>, freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <20021210222210.GG98967@roughtrade.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212100824540.30622-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov> References: <200212100846.gBA8kBO08833@splat.grant.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212100824540.30622-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov>
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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
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