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On Thu, 14 May 2009 14:16:46 +0200, Raph wrote: |
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> > What's wrong with creating each user's home directory on one computer |
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> > and exporting it to the others over NFS? If each user has a preferred |
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> > workstation, this will also reduce network usage. |
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> If I understand you well, each "client" /etc/exports would be : |
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> /home/user0 server.domain(rw) |
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> /home/user378 server.domain(rw) |
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> All the directories have not only to exists but not to be empty |
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> has it would conflict with the others clients serving the "already used" |
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> versions (says for exemple pc14.domain which |
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> contains /home/user33/foo.bar) |
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> Then in each "client" /etc/fstab I would put : |
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> server:/home/user0 /home/user0 defaults 0 0 |
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> ... |
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> server:/home/user378 /home/user378 defaults |
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> 0 0 |
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I meant that each machine would have one or two home directories that |
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would be exported to the others. In the simplest case, N users and N |
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computers, each box would have one line in /etc/exports |
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/home/user1 netmask(rw) |
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and N-1 lines in /etc/fstab. |
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box2:/home/user2 /home/user2 |
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... |
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boxN:/home/userN /home/userN |
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That way you reduce the impact of one failed machine to only the user |
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directories on that box, instead of the whole LV. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years |
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of careful development." |
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