Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 1999 11:34:05 +0100 | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: Linux & NFS caching: reducing TCO |
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> I remember there was an nfs hack whereby you could have > different files going to different clients from the same nfs > volume based on an extension of the filename. eg something > like:
> I remember reading about this somewhere in the > linux/Documentation directory a long time ago. But I can't find > back anymore now, just when it'd be useful to me.
> Anybody remember this feature? and whether it still exists?
> That must have been before I got involved with the NFS client. I can't > say I've heard of it.
i think i read it when i just started using linux about 2 years ago.. (end of '96, RH4.2, 2.0.18). Was there a kernel nfs server then? Cause i'm not 100% i read it in linux/Doc... perhaps it was a unfsd feature. Whatever, I'm sure this feature did exist (somewhere), cause I was so struck at the usefulness of it.
I've checked the nfs howto and the nfs-root, nfs-root-client mini-howto's from that era, but can't find back any reference to it. Are there archives of older kernel tree's online where i could check up the linux/Doc.. stuff?
Trond: how difficult would it be add this feature to the current knfsd? it would be really useful in certain situations, eg exporting a single /etc directory to multiple clients. Or for example i have two seperate /usr/lib/sane exports, one for the net clients, and one for the sane server. They need different symlinks. I could avoid a lot of duplication with a feature like that.
(also i could edit sendmail.cf once and have it apply to all the 'dumb' 'forward to site server' sendmail client setups.)
regards,
Paul Jakma.
paul@clubi.ie
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