On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:00 Luca Ferrari's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > Hi, > I've got two machines that exports the user's homes and other dirs with > NFS, and the clients mount them via automount. > I've configured the client so that they can mount a directory from the main > machine (main) or from the backup one (backup) if the main is not working. > In other words, here there's an example of a client /etc/auto.home > > * main,backup:/export/home/& > > > The problem, instead, is that clients are mounting directories from main > and backup at the same time. In fact, I've shared another disk space, > called shared, which autofs config file contains: > * main,backup:/export/shared/home/& > > but when a user connects to a client, what happens is that the homes are > mounted from main, while shared from backup. Now, I cannot see any > difference in the configuration file, thus I cannot solve the problem. Any > idea about it? > I solved the problem of the client mount thru weights, thus changing the configuration file of the client in one like the below: * main(0), backup(10):/export/home/& produces the right mount of the main machine and, if it is not available, of the backup one. However, I still don't know how to make the backup machine mounting the main one, instead of its local copy. Here the weights are not working. Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
