Hi Alvin,
Thus spoke Alvin Oga on 23-Feb-99 :
>
> hi michael
>
>> > One thing that amd has that would be nice if autofs has is symlink mounts.
>> > If for instance, you have two systems, fred and barney. Fred exports
>> > /pebbles
>> > and /dino, while barney exports /bambam, you might want to have a
>> > centralized
>> > mount point for all disks:
>> >
>> > /mnt/pebbles
>> > /mnt/bambam
>> > /mnt/dino
>> >
>> > If you were on fred, /mnt/pebbles would be a symlink to /pebbles,
>> > /mnt/dino
>>
>> That work already :)
>
> yes... I use it.... to do /Net/All_hosts aka /n/All_hosts etc...
>
> cd /Net ; ln -s /.autofs/RemoteHost_or_Dir1 .
> cd /Net ; ln -s /.autofs/RemoteHost_or_Dir2 .
> cd /Net ; ln -s / hostname
>
> I use it for local and remote backups .... since local disk backup
> does not help if the cpu/system goes nuts and destroys all local disks
But there is a problem with that concept: you have make your symbolic links by
hand to your /.autofs.
Thats, what we do not want, we meaning people who run thousends of
cooperative machines or people like me, who do physics for living and are not
paid as sys adm. I would like to build my cluster with simple means almost "out
of the box" as another poster demanded.
I am flexible. I am willing to organize the filesystem structure accouring to to
tools, we have.
But at the very end we must not forget: Computer are just tools not their own
purpose.
have fun, too
Frithjof
"If you see someone without a smile, give him one of yours"
Frithjof Anders
Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
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