Perhaps use can remount the new filesystems in the old location, i.e. by using "mount --bind /new_mount /old_mount"<br><br>e.g: mount --bind /server/backups /raid1<br><br>I do this for a reason I can't even remember now - perhaps cause a symlink wasn't sufficient for some reason ...<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Brad Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad@fnarfbargle.com">brad@fnarfbargle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
G'day all,<br>
<br>
I've got a largeish network that was built around a set of exports on a central server :<br>
<br>
/raid1<br>
/raid2<br>
/raid3<br>
/raid4<br>
<br>
Is there any way I can re-arrange the server and relocate the mounted filesystems without reconfiguring the clients? For a dumb example, something like<br>
<br>
/raid1 - > /server/backups<br>
/raid2 -> /server/media<br>
/raid3 -> /server/work<br>
/raid4 -> /server/archives<br>
<br>
With CIFS and Samba it's a piece of cake, you just change smb.conf and the clients are none the wiser. I've just not managed to find a way to do something similar with NFS.<br>
<br>
I could just migrate the clients to CIFS I suppose, but seeing as it's a purely Linux network, I know NFS/UDP is more efficient and it's just easier to manage with user mapping.<br>
<br>
Suggestions really welcome, I'm at a total loss.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Brad<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jason Nicholls<br><a href="mailto:jason@mindsocket.com.au" target="_blank">jason@mindsocket.com.au</a><br>0430 314 857<br><br>