odd linux question - can you mount a disk on another machine?

in other words, if I have /directory/ on server1, could I somehow set up a networked drive with server2 and have it show up as /directory/ there as well?

I'm asking because I need to split some things up on a current site between two servers, but I need to be able to use directory/file functions with php for some of the scripts

how would I go about this?

 

This is one of way you can do it.
have NFS on both linux boxes and then use following command

replace server1 with hostname of "server1"

 

thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for

 

Yeah I would have suggested the same thing, but it does take a while to set up and pretty complicated....

My boss made me do it once and it took me around 2 days....

 

2 days? Does that include 1.9 days sleeping?

Edit /etc/exports to read something similar to the following:

/directory 10.0.0.1(rw,no_root_squash)

and then run /etc/init.d/nfs reload

On the other machine just type mount -t nfs 10.0.0.1:/directory /directory

Simple as.

Note that this example will give root users with root on 10.0.0.1 root-level access to the files.