Thursday, July 17, 2014

Static NFS mounts vs autofs direct map mounts

Static NFS mounts vs autofs direct map mounts

Do you use static nfs mounts or automount? If you use automount, the mount needs to get re-established if not acessed for a while, thus delaying the first page load.

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It's actually hard to argue one way or the other. The only item I can point out (happened to me) is that if you are using static mounts as in fstab and someone/thing makes an error the system may not boot and you'll have to go into rescue mode to get the system back online. That won't happen when using autofs.

http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/97705/drupal-files-on-nfs-performance-degredation
http://serverfault.com/questions/596621/static-nfs-mounts-vs-autofs-direct-map-mounts

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