On 19. 11. 2015 23:52, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > I didn't see this in the Cygwin FAQ (perhaps I didn't look carefully > enough or perhaps it is too obvious a question). > > Instead of installing Cygwin on each Windows machine, is it > advisable to install it once on a public mounted drive? Then not only > multiple users (concurrent or not) could use Cygwin on multiple > machines (concurrently or not) from one place. Since many of the > machines I want to install Cygwin are short of disk space on the local > drive, but there seems to be sufficient space for a slightly larger > than minimal Cygwin installation on a public drive, is this advisable? > I guess I'd see a performance hit if Cygwin were not installed on a > local drive. Are there any other concerns?
Potential concerns: - location of home directories (same as Windows, or in $cygwinroot/home, or somewhere else) - location of tmp (one shared in $cygwinroot/home, or per-user, or something else) - location of var, for example for apps that put pidfiles there (one shared, per-user, else) Essentially, as with any other shared app with possibly concurrent use, the program directory should ideally be read-only and any user-generated state gets written in per-user directories. I'm also suspicious of whether advanced filesystem features will work on a network path, e.g. deleting/updating files/binaries when in use. -- David Macek
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