automount seems to be a good option as pointed below. my original question was what would happen to clients using nfs mounted fs if the nfs server were to crash. Thanks BB -laloo > > I wonder if automounter will be of any help ?? say if the nfs server were > to crash while a client was working in automounted partition , won't the > client face problems ?? If the server crashes and then comes back up again an automouter client will have a glitch but keep working. A normal nfs client would normally need to be rebooted (quickest soln). The sceanario you describe is exactly what automounter was written for. The Unix System Administrator's Handbook recommends using what is now called am-utils (www.am-utils.org) over suns automounter. I tend to use suns automounter on sun and am-utils everywhere else. BB Reply Reply _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Feb 21 22:55:23 2002
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