Disregard this, I've solved this problem long since. Why did the list take one month to circulate my post?
TDB ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas David Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, November 10, 2002 10:37 am Subject: [Sharity-talk] dynamic mounting? network load? > I have 10 windows boxes and 7 unix boxes on a LAN used by > students. I > want them each to be able to use any of the clients, but have some > space of their own somewhere on the system. The disks I have on > the > unix boxes just aren't enough, so I want to let them use the D > drives > of the windows boxes and use sharity to mount them. But a problem > arises if more than 10 clients attempt to share the same disk, > because > these windows boxes are just using w2k pro. Two approaches occur > to me: > > 1) Have the 7 unix boxes mount all 10 of the shared drives all the > time, but have the windows boxes mount them dynamically when each > user > logs on, and unmount them when the user logs off. Since I'm > putting two > users on each disk, this would guarantee that each disk is never > accessed by more than 9 clients, only two of which would actually > be > doing anything. > > I know how to do this, but I worry that there may be a performance > problem. Anyone have a feeling about whether this would bog down > the > network? There would always be at least 70 sharings, maximum 80 > sharings, never more than 17 actually doing anything. > Realistically, I > think it would be rare that more than one sharing was really being > used > at a time, but then there would be a few times just after class > when 10 > students would charge in and start downloading 5 gigs worth of > data > each. > > 2) Have all the clients mount dynamically, then the max # of > sharings > would be 17 for the entire net, which seems reasonable. This > sounds > better, but I don't know how to do it. Is there a way to use suid > or > something to have a system mount a volume when a user logs on and > then > unmount it when the user logs off? (No need to give a long > explanation, > just give me a clue so I can go google the answer.) This is one of > those rare things that is easy on windows but I don't know whether > it > can be done at all on unix. > > Any other approaches occur to anyone? Well, I guess we could > always > just buy some more big disks, but we have a budget problem at the > moment. > > thanks, > > TDB > > _______________________________________________ > Sharity-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe see http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/sharity-talk > _______________________________________________ Sharity-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe see http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/sharity-talk
