From: Jon Forrest Subject: Re: To Automount or to Not Automount? Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:15:17 -0800 Message-ID: <4B4F8965.8020705@berkeley.edu> References: <4B4F8575.1010505@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Haynes Return-path: Received: from cm02fe.IST.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.218.143]:37881 "EHLO cm02fe.IST.Berkeley.EDU" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753077Ab0ANVen (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:34:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B4F8575.1010505-xsfywfwIY+M@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 1/14/2010 12:58 PM, Thomas Haynes wrote: > Is every node mounting every other node? No. The compute nodes mount from the one file server. The compute nodes don't export anything. > Or are you talking about every node mounting a central > server? Yes. One person whom I respect told me that static mounts result in more overhead on the server. I didn't understand this but I don't claim to be an NFS expert. -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforrest-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org