On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > I have a home directory from an ubuntu server shared to multiple other > ubuntu servers as the home directory (the default login shell is bash > on these servers) via NFS (see the following configuration in > /etc/exports from the NFS server). > > /mnt/home 172.17.0.0/16(fsid=2,rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync,no_root_squash) > > autofs is used to mount the NFS on the client servers (see the > following configuration). > > ~$ cat /etc/auto.master > +auto.master > /home /etc/auto.home --timeout=90 > ~$ cat /etc/auto.home > * -fstype=nfs4,rw,intr,fsc nsfserver:/mnt/home/& > > But I frequently end up with a situation when ~/.bash_history is not > readable which blocks the logins to these client servers. I feel that > this may be related with concurrent write to ~/.bash_history from > these servers, which somehow screw up NFS. Hi Peng, what do you have that supports your feeling that the problem is conflicts on the ~/.bash_history file? It's hard to help without more information. You should expect NFS home directories to work and work well - it is a very common usage. Ben -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html