thorstad@kirk.asd.contel.com (Brian Thorstad) (11/03/89)
Re: v8n178 article by Mike Anthis (bcstec!sleepy!kato!anthis@uunet.uu.net) Mike: I do not have any tools to help you, but am VERY INTERESTED in a summary of your results. One question: with a network such as yours, are you taking advantage of the automounter and the 'auto.vol' map? One example is that I have placed most of the clusters (from /usr/cluster) on only two hosts. The auto.vol map contains an entry for 'appl' which appropriately indicates both servers. The same for 'devel'. Then I removed most clusters from the clients, and replaced the appropriate directory (eg. man_pages) with a link to '/vol/appl/man_pages'. ... Works Great! The nice thing about being able to list more than one host in the automount map is that there is a small amount of load balancing... Brian Thorstad Contel Federal Systems (thorstad@kirk.asd.contel.com)