Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Suresh Kumar. R wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is my setup: Around 400 login ids, 50 machines, 2 fileservers.
> > Home directories of all users in these 2 fileservers only.
> > We use NIS for distributing the passwd and hosts databases.
> >
> > I earlier used nfs mount as rich suggested, but then, if the server
> > goes down due to some reason and comes back, the clients wont
> > have the file system available when the student logs in, as
> > the mounting is done at boot time.
>
> if you really want good availibility then you want
>
> 1. /home to be replicated in real-time across both servers
>
> and
>
> 2. use the multiple server syntax i posted earlier, so that clients
> can fail over automatically if one server goes down.
>
> However in the case of:
>
> 1. You need some kind of shared storage for this. Which linux isn't
> too hot on yet. (there's www.globalfilesystem.org, no idea how well
> this works - otherwise you might have to consider a proprietary Unix)
>
> 2. I don't think linux autofs supports multiple server syntax. (least
> not last time i checked.).
>
That's because that isn't autofs' job -- it either belongs in NFS or in
mount(8).
> if you don't have the budget needed to implement 1. then you will
> have to accept that downtime on server will == downtime on the
> users who have their /home on it.
-hpa
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