I'm a bit worried over the resultant nfs performance all going though this single mount point. Can someone comment on the issues of multiple nfs mounts vs. a single mount ? What about locking ?
I don't think that single vs. multiple mount points per se makes a performance difference. However, if it makes sense to use different NFS options for different applications, then I believe you can still do it. Just mount the same netapp volume on different mount points with different sets of NFS options, and on the NFS client have each app use the appropriate mount point for the NFS options it needs.
mount -o rw,hard,opt2,opt3 toaster:/vol/big /mnt1
mount -o rw,hard,opt4,opt5 toaster:/vol/big /mnt2
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