NIS and automounted home directories

[Lunt, Nick]

Hi Jonathan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA)
 
> In a minimal configuration, you would have two systems and 
> three disks.  Each system would have a single disk for its 
> operating system.  The third disk would be connected to both 
> systems; this disk would be used for data like your home 
> directories. Additional software would be installed on both 
> nodes that monitored the health of the cluster and determined 
> which system was acting as the master.  I've used SUN's 
> SunCluster product, but have not used any of the Linux 
> clustering options.


I agree Im going to test share a SAN LUN to the 2 NIS servers (I want to keep the NFS home exports and the NIS services on the same machines really). If that doesn't work out too well I'll investigate RedHats GFS.

Thanks,
Nick .
 
 
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> Subject:	NIS and automounted home directories
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Im setting up NIS, here's the picture.
> 
> 2 NIS servers, NIS1 and NIS2.
> 
> NIS1 exports the home dirs.
> 
> NIS1 goes down so clients use NIS2 for authentication. Now 
> the users home dirs are gone.
> 
> What do you folks do to keep home dirs intact when the NIS 
> server exporting them goes down ?
> 
> It's possible we could replicate the exported directories to 
> NIS2 but that really would be a major hassle, some of our 
> developers home directories are huge.
> 
> Anyone got any recommendations ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick .
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