November 23, 201312 yr Is it possible? I've got two main shares, one for backups, and one for everything else. I've got a folder nested 2 or 3 levels deep that I want to mount to a system over NFS. Do I have to mount the user share itself, or can I export the subfolder individually?
November 23, 201312 yr Is it possible? I've got two main shares, one for backups, and one for everything else. I've got a folder nested 2 or 3 levels deep that I want to mount to a system over NFS. Do I have to mount the user share itself, or can I export the subfolder individually? If you are already exporting via NFS, you can just specify in your path in the /etc/fstab on the client. Example: On the server, you are exporting the share "Video", with sub-folders "TV" and "Movies" In your client machine you can put in the fstab: tower:/mnt/user/Video/TV tower:/mnt/user/Video/Movies Or if you segregate the share to a specific disk tower:/mnt/disk4/Video/TV tower:/mnt/disk4/Video/Movies I do both. I use the /mnt/user/X for shares that span the array, and the /mnt/diskX/Video/X for shares that are limited to one disk. This can work as deep as you want. i.e tower:/mnt/disk4/Video/TV/comedies/ILoveLucy/Season1/adnausium The shares that are pointed to a specific disk (diskx) will be every stable. The shares that use the /user can get a little flaky. The /user mounts will get "stale NFS handles" every so often. This seems to be very dependent on how often you make changes to the shares themselves (meaning adding, deleting, changing files). I segregate local household server data to one disk. This is the data that is changed most often. I have several sub-folders on this share mounted as volumes on all the client machines. For my shares that span drives, I mount on the /user. I have to "umount" and "mount" about once a month, since the video data changes the least often. This is a function of NFS. Hope that helps. Bruce
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