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From: aaronf@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Aaron Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: NFS Mount Point Strategy?
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Date: 16 Nov 90 23:09:31 GMT
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From: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill)
> Is there some advantage I'm missing to having everything mounted under /nfs?
> E.g., why not just /machinename/partition?

Many times while performing backups, you would not want to include NFS
file systems.  By placing them under /nfs/machinename instead of just
/machinename it is easier to exclude them from the backup without unmounting
them.

Just a thought... 

Aaron Friesen aaronf@hpfcla.hp.com