[TriLUG] Public folder on Debian

[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

If your NFS server tends to go offline (i.e.: reboots or nightly shutdowns), you will definitely get stale file handles.

That said, I have a few NFS servers running for +3years w/out a hiccup.  The only “gotcha” is setting up NFS V3 vs V4.  Make sure both sides match…

-Ron


> On Mar 28, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Brian Grawburg via TriLUG wrote:
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>> Two computers on same network. One running Debian Jessie and mine running Wheezy. I want to share the Public folder on the Jessie machine so that I can periodically grab a file from it to work on. There are no other machines that will need to see the file. Seems simple to me. The Jessie unit gives me no option to 'Share' the folder. Do I need to mount it (/etc/fstab) on my machine? How do I make it shareable on the other unit?
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> I gave up on NFS a long time ago. I was winding up with stale file handles all the time and would have to reboot a hung machine. I tried automounting NFS but it wouldn't mount/umount reliably and I'd wind up with stale file handles again.
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> For directories that need to be sync'ed, I use passwdless rsync run from cron. Sure you have to wait for the next rsync, but that's not a problem for the workload I have. Some directories are rsync'ed every hour and some every day. It's been working perfectly for years.
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> Joe
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