running NFS between Tru64 (digital unix) and HPUX

[johnson]

Hi:

I am running low on disk space on our HP machine (HP-UX B.10.20 E 9000/777). I would like to NFS mount another files system on our Digial Alpha machine (Tru64 Unix V 4.0E--formarly Digital Unix) to our HP machine to get more space on the HP.

Does anyone have experience with this? Are there any potential issues, caveats, etc. in doing this? How seamless will this be for our
HPUX users?

Of course we could buy another HP disk. But the above is our low $$ solution for our low $$ budget :-)

thanks,

[Rumen Ginev]

You are on the right way. NFS is great thing.

You may keep in mind followig notes:
1. User's ID
- If the NFS mounted file system will be used by the users in their usual tasks you should maintain same group/user database on the NFS server and NFS client. One could use NIS, but since I don't prefer to use it I wrote a script that has similar (of course very limited) functions.
- Another reason for using NFS is to transfer big backups to a file server. In this case creating single group/user on both NFS server and client is enough.

2. Choose carefully each option when mount NFS file system. This is important for the performance. As in your situation NFS client is a HP-UX system check mount_nfs(1M).

3. When you have NFS properly configured and running it is a good idea to monitor the network load.

Hope this is a good starting point.