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.).
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.
regards,
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