[Klug-general] Tweaking NFS parameters

[Mike Evans]

We mount an nfs home drive on the laptop regularly at home with no 
issues.  However I mount it as a subdirectory of the existing home so 
that the files are accessible - but I'm not aiming for a full roaming 
profile as I want the laptop to be able to stand in its own when we are 
away from the home network.

I also backup over nfs from one server to another and again have never 
had any 'stability' issues.  One of the great things about the nfs 
protocol is that it is stateless.  As a result you should even be able 
reboot the machine hosting the shared drive during an operation and it 
will just carry on once it comes back up provided the client is 
sufficiently patient.

my fstab entry on the laptop looks like this:

florence:/home	/mnt/florence/home nfs	rw,hard,intr,user,noauto 0 0

The laptop runs Ubuntu 7.10 and 9.04 (though the 9.04 install is recent 
so not extensively tested.  The server (florence) is running Fedora 8 
with nfs V3.

All the other configuration had to be done on florence.  I had to fix 
the ports used by the various bits of NFS so that they weren't moving 
targets and then open the appropriate holes in the firewall so that the 
laptop can see them.

Mike