[ale] Fstab fails

[Wolf Halton]

Thanks, Mike,

I have got to find a better example of how it works.  I have been all
over the internet, but with no great success.
This is usually the sort of thing I write how-tos about when I find a
way to solve them.

-Wolf

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 10:04 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
>> I have been trying to get my nfs thing to work, but it has proven so
>> fragile that I am giving up on it.
>
>> So would it make sense to have the configs in a separate place from
>> the spot on the local server where they are used, right
>> /root/configs          # git repo
>> and push them to
>> server-00:/configs # home server
>> server-01:/configs # 1st remote server
>> and so on.
>> I don't know how to do it with git and/or puppet.  I have been looking
>> at autofs, which is more reminiscent of nfs (but nfs-style mount lines
>> fail).  The autofs solution is more aimed at what I think of as
>> focus-clusters - 3-server groups that are linked in in their focus -
>> for instance, to deliver a specific application suite.
>
> Definitely look closer at autofs.  I use that for almost all NFS work
> and, if you're really intent on very dynamic configurations, you can use
> network maps or the /net auto directory.  I really use the later pretty
> extensively.  You don't even need special configurations to make it work
> and you simply open up your shares on your server, which you have to do
> anyways!
>
>> I like the "update every five minutes" of puppet.
>
>> Does it make the most sense to have a central puppet server that
>> pushes to all the other servers in the network segment, or would it be
>> better to have a puppet server on each focus-cluster?
>
>> Wolf
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
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