On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Chris wrote: > I did a little bit more digging and found some interesting things. NFS4 > Mirror mounts. This would seem to be the most logical option. In this > scenario the client would connect to a single mount /tank/users but would be > able to move through the individual user file systems underneath that mount. > i.e. /tank/users/bob or /tank/users/jenny. They are mounted automatically as > needed. Very cool. Now you share out the top of the tree while the nfs4 > server takes care of the rest. > > Read about it here: > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nfs-namespace/files/mm-PRS-open.html
Actually this doesn't change the server side of things. You still need to share all the server file systems you want shared but the NFSv4 client needs to mount only the top-level file system (/tank/users in your case) and it automagically discovers the file systems underneath it. So, where you would have previously needed automounter maps to teach the client(s) about the server file systems you now have mirror mounts doing the same thing for you. Alok _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
