Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f171.google.com ([209.85.220.171]:35554 "EHLO mail-qk0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751546AbbDKJ6W (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2015 05:58:22 -0400 Received: by qkhg7 with SMTP id g7so72093362qkh.2 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 02:58:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:58:21 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Split NFS4 share on multiple servers From: Prunk Dump To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello NFS team, On my network I share my users' home directories from a kerberized NFS4 server. I would like to split this shared filesystem tree on 3 servers to reduce server loading and increase storage capacity. I don't want file replication, just distribution. On this link : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-generic-nfs-mount/ I can read that "NFS version 4 provides a pseudo-tree mechanism that enables a single mount of all NFSv4 exported entries" I can't find documentation of this feature. Is it works on multiple servers ? Is this possible to mount multiple NFS4 shares on a same mount point without using a special file system like Unionfs or Glusterfs ? What is the preferred way of network administrators to distribute their users' home directories through NFS4 ? Thanks, Baptiste.