rocks linux cluster - mounting an nfs share on all nodes

after setting up the latest cluster I tried to provide to all nodes a couple of nfs shares, since user demanded this.

Well in rocks linux it's rather simple, once you understand the concept behind.

So a step to step tutorial.

• go to the profile directory
cd /export/rocks/install/site-profiles/5.3/nodes/
• make a copy of the skeleton file
cp skeleton.xml extend-compute.xml
• edit file to tell it that we need to create a directory and add a line to the fstab. The right place for this is in the post section
  
  
mkdir -p /mnt/share

<file name="/etc/fstab" mode="append">
server:/mount /mnt/share nfs defaults 0 0
</file>

  
• change back to the main install dir
cd /export/rocks/install
• rebuild rocks distibution
rocks create distro
• rebuild nodes
ssh compute-0-0 '/boot/kickstart/cluster-kickstart'

congratulations if you did everything right your node should now boot up and have a directory mounted.