Before I start NFS RTFM, will NFS handle this problem?

[david thornton]

I'd go so far as to say: Dood: that's what NFS is for!

Like Dood!

David

Teddy David Mills wrote:

> I am wasting a lot of diskspace by keeping multiple copies of the same 
> data on different servers.
>
> for example:
> On CENTOS is my music collection and gallery2 picture database.
> I would like to move this data (and all the data I have) onto the 
> FreeNAS1 server.
> But I have to tell CENTOS, to mount/map the remote FreeNAS1 
> directories to a various local directories; as if was local on Centos.
> (even though the data will only exist on the remote FreeNAS1 server)
>
>
>
> background data...
>
> I am using two FreeNAS servers FREENAS1 and FREENAS2.
> I back up FreeNAS1 to FreeNAS2 with rsync.
> Thus I have a valid backup of all data.
>
> Today's idea is to move EVERYTHING I have onto FreeNAS1. (currently 70GB)
>
> If I move everything onto FreeNAS1, then I have to tell my other linux 
> servers to map FreeNAS directories and have them appear as local to 
> that filesystem.
> I am not sure if this is what NFS is meant to do. If this is what NFS 
> can do, then full speed ahead.
>
> btw,
> FreeNAS has a NFS setup tab. I would image I would have to make the 
> other linux servers as NFS clients.
> If this works, it will save me 100's of GB's, a LOT of admin work,  
> and all I have to do is keep dropping more stuff into FreeNAS1.
>
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