[TriLUG] NFS client on Laptop configuration question, and an Ubuntu tip

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> I'd like to have this directory auto mounted on boot when it's
> available (i.e. when I'm at home).

I do this with automount. When you're not at home, the 
directory exported from the server will be empty, but 
nothing hangs if you try to access it. I have the nfs mount 
timeout in 15secs, so I don't have to remember to unmount it 
before I unplug (I still check anyhow). With the short 
timeout, you need to make sure disk access to the nfs server 
completes without waiting somewhere in the middle. I found 
that doing backups where a gz file was being created on the 
fly onto the nfs server didn't work. The gz file that wound 
up on the nfs server was corrupt. The client (my laptop) 
would do a bit of gz'ing, then write, then gz somemore, but 
the nfs server would umount (presumably) and not keep the 
file open.

Joe

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