Concurrent NFS mounts
Hi -
has anyone got any advice/thoughts on this situation?
The setup is this.
I've got two machines: one's my workstation (A), and the other's an
older, stuffed-to-the-hilt-with-ram-but-not-very-fast P166 (B).
A exports /home to B, and B exports /usr and /var/spool/[mail|news] to
A.
I can leave both on all the time, but since they're in my bedroom, I'd
prefer to leave at least A off some of the time (ie night-time . . :-),
and preferably leave both off.
How can I solve the concurrent mounting problem that occurs if I turn
them on together? I don't mind forcing a boot order - I'm thinking B
first, so that A can find /usr (?), but then B doesn't find /home. I'd
like to have both sets of NFS mounts in /etc/fstab so I don't have to
manually run "mount A:/home /home" each time I boot B, after I'm sure
that A has successfully exported /home.
I suppose what I'm asking as well is: is there a way to make nfs do a
mount "on-demand", i.e. when I log into B, and not at boot time?
Any suggestions much appreciated!
jc
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