Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!brl-adm!adm!mwm%violet.Berkeley.EDU@BERKELEY.EDU From: @BERKELEY.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: YP required with NFS? Message-ID: <2231@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 17:47:35 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.2231 Posted: Thu Jan 8 17:47:35 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Jan-87 23:55:59 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 15 Yes, you can run NFS without yp. When we first started installing sun clusters , the yp packets were doing awfull things to the uvaxen on the same ethernet, so we turned off yp until such a time the uvaxen got fixed. And yes, some sort of service like yp is needed. However, yp is *not* the answer. Having two versions of some files, the need to use ypcat to get the "real" version of things, and the inability to get to the files if they are being updated are all lossages. A nice, simple approach would be to make /etc/hosts, and other such things a symlink onto a remote mounted file system. I can't see any problems with that approach, (other than needing the real files there while you boot), but there are probably some. Anyone tried something like this yet?