Re: [SLE] Duelling SAMBAs
From: elefino (kevinmcl_at_magma.ca)
Date: 01/04/05
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:15:21 -0500
On Monday 03 January 2005 17:47, James Knott wrote:
> Jonathan Brooks wrote:
> > Well said - in my bad old solaris 2.6 days we used automounter
> > maps to get round the problem of a "downed" NFS server hanging
> > the solaris clients. There's autofs for Linux, but I'm not sure
> > how robust it is - any feedback anyone?
> >
> > Of course, there is the argument that when you have all your files
> > on a central NFS server, if it hangs you couldn't possibly do
> > anything useful with the clients anyway, but I think that's a
> > cop-out. You'd like the NFS server to re-establish connections to
> > the clients once it's back up, but I guess that's in the realms
> > of kernel software development and other scary stuff and the like ;)
>
> As I recall, a soft mount is supposed to resolve that problem. Then
> again, we're not talking Windows servers here, so there'd not likely be
> many server failures. ;-)
But, since I started all this just wanting to share directories between
two Linux boxes (both SuSE 9.2 Pro), and since the directories that
need sharing are on both systems (some on each), I got the idea that
whatever filesystem service I used, I'd have to have a server running
on each PC, in order to serve shares to the Client on the other,
respectively.
If I'm wrong on that, somebody oughta tell me that just one server
on the network can reach out and share a directory that lives on another
machine... that's not how I imagined it to work, but...
Anyway, my Linux box is my only PC at home, so it's on most of the time.
My wife's PC is dual boot (because I'm still waiting for that other fellow
to tell me where to get tax software that runs on Linux, so she can drop
Windows... :-)
This means that her Linux machine absolutely *will* go down while my
machine is connected (whether by NFS, SAMBA or whatever), probably
several times per week. If that meant a hang of my PC every time --
and a hang of hers everytime mine was hung.... looks like an endless loop
to me. That's less convenient than sneakernet or e-mail.
I've only heard from half a dozen people on this thread, and among them
they disagree about whether NFS takes the computer to lunch when
another NFS server goes away. Surely out of the hundreds or thousands
of members of this list, there must be more than a few who have two
Linux boxes sharing files/directories across a simple home network.
What are all the rest of you doing?
Kevin (still unshared)
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