> Put all your filesystems in a single machine on a private internal network.
>
> Connect two servers to this internal network, and also to the outside network.
> Mount your filesystems by NFS on these machines and re-export them to your
> clients from there.
This is evil. Re-exporting does not work. Not enough.
> This scheme relies on the fact that NFS file handles from one machine will be
> valid (or at least decipherable) on the other. I _think_ that they would be -
> could anyone else confirm that?
I can deny it, not confirm. "Normal" filehandles have slight chance to
be valid on other computer, but fake handles you get when re-exporting
nfs will not be valid for sure.
Pavel
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