[gpfsug-discuss] How to do multiple mounts via GPFS

[Skylar Thompson]

Assuming this is on Linux, you ought to be able to use bind mounts for
that, something like this in fstab or equivalent:

/home /gpfs1/home bind defaults 0 0

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:24:09PM -0500, Justin Cantrell wrote:
> We're trying to mount multiple mounts at boot up via gpfs.
> We can mount the main gpfs mount /gpfs1, but would like to mount things
> like:
> /home /gpfs1/home
> /other /gpfs1/other
> /stuff /gpfs1/stuff
> 
> But adding that to fstab doesn't work, because from what I understand,
> that's not how gpfs works with mounts.
> What's the standard way to accomplish something like this?
> We've used systemd timers/mounts to accomplish it, but that's not ideal.
> Is there a way to do this natively with gpfs or does this have to be done
> through symlinks or gpfs over nfs?

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