Distributed File System

[John (EBo) David]

Austin Godber wrote:
> 
> I doubt this will work like you expect.  Using the same mount point
> tends to just cover over the previous mounted drives.  So if you mount
> one thing on /mnt/drive then mount a second thing on /mnt/drive ... you
> will only see the second thing.  And then when you unmount the second
> thing you will see the first thing again on your mount point.
>         Perhaps this is not quite what you mean.  If you have a setup like /mnt
> with winA/ winB/ WinC/ and nfsA/ nfsB/ nfsC/ in it and then mount to
> those you will be fine, but I don't think you cah use that same mount
> point for all.  Actually maybe there's a mount option that will allow
> this, I am not sure.

what I've done is to mount something like:

  /dev/hda7 /suse63      auto    defaults        1 1
  /dev/hda5 /suse63/boot auto    defaults        1 2

which will mount my old suse 6.3 distribution's / on /suse63, and mount
that old distro's /boot on /suse63/boot.  In order for this to happen,
/suse63 is mounted on pass 1 and /suse63/boot on pass 2 once the system
has synced the previous mount's info...

I do not know what nfs/samba would see from this though...

  EBo --