[auton-users] NFS mounts available for your desktop machine

[Dan Pelleg]

We now believe we solved some technical issues regarding mounting the lab's
big disk array (BigPapa) over NFS to people's desktops.

Mounting that volume would give you a filesystem that appears to be a local
disk on your desktop machine (or any other machine). Its volume is
currently 1.1TB or so and is much faster to access than the CS AFS
servers. It also has most of the advantages of sharing files that AFS gives
you (for example, keeping just one copy of a big data file, or
collaboration across machines or people over a shared file).

To enable this for your own desktop (or any .auton.cs.cmu.edu machine you
find yourself using), send a request to admin at autonlab.org. We need to know:

 - if the machine is facilitized or not
 - who has the root password