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From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: NFS Mount Point Strategy?
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Date: 16 Nov 90 14:45:32 GMT
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de5@ornl.gov writes:
   Is there some advantage I'm missing to having everything mounted under /nfs?
   E.g., why not just /machinename/partition?

Aside from the problems of getwd(), there is also the simple fact that
/ gets _awfully_ cluttered if you have a lot of servers.  I have 31
servers in my fstabs; I don't want an extra 31 directories in /.

--karl