NFS mounts over other files
Bill Shirley
bill at gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov
Tue Jun 25 01:56:16 AEST 1991
Question:
I am mounting a filesystem using NFS (from one Sun 4 SPARCstation
to another). I know that if I mount it onto a directory with files in it,
the files become unavailable. Is it a bad idea to do this or not?
Specifically, I want /usr/lib/X11 files to be contained on one machine
(there is a lot of font info that takes up space). But if the server or
network is down, I want the others to be able to startup X (and for that
they need minimal font files, rgb files, ...). I already
have put important executables (X (server), xterm, ...) on each machine,
but have the frills on the server (oclock, xcal, ...).
I have RTFM, but failed to find a mention of "mounting over" files.
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