NFSLinux Clients AIX Servers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:24:43PM -0500, John Miles wrote:
> Thank you for the reply Len,
> 
> In our case they are AIX boxes using NFS 3 using soft mounts.
> The permissions are being granted via netgroup files also.
> To give you an idea of how big this situation is - all of our Linux client
> machines have /etc/fstabs that are longer than 200 lines..... which is a big
> problem in its self.
> I am counting the mounts timing out on one of the AIX boxes - it is at *
> mount_name*28 (i.e. that server has mounts starting with 1 to at least 28).

Might be one of the few cases where automount makes sense (mounts NFS
shares on access, rather than at boot).  It can also use a distributed
list of available shares, which means much less fstab to maintain on all
the boxes.

Sounds like a maintainance nightmare the way it is now.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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