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On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Alex Efros wrote: |
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> AFAIK "remote /usr" idea was born many years ago, when hard drive sizes |
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> was too small. Nowadays this has no sense anymore. |
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> And from management/administration view sharing /usr between many |
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> servers isn't significantly help because most complexity in |
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> administration is updating /etc, not /usr. |
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> Probably I miss something important but I've no idea how "remote /usr" |
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> can make administration easier nowadays... |
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There are several very good reasons for using a remote-mounted /usr: |
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- You can mount it read-only so it can't be modified |
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- You can easily 're-task' a server by changing what it mounts |
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- Your data is easier to update |
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- Your data is easier to backup |
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Additional complexity (to simplify things a bit) is about as complicated |
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changing your fstab to point at an NFS server rather than a local device. |
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If I've got more than 3 or 4 servers to manage in a deployment I typically |
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use remote-mounted root and /usr filesystems - it makes life an awful lot |
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easier. |
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-Ronan |
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