Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> writes: > Yes, the most repeated argument has been mount /usr via NFS. > Unfortunately, nobody yet explained how do they update the resulting > cluster of machines.
It's not particularly difficult. You update the system master and push that update into NFS, synchronizing any non-/usr data as you need to across all the systems mounting that NFS partition. If you don't want to take downtime, you have two chroots on the NFS server and pivot systems back and forth between the two chroots as you do updates. People did and still do this all the time with AFS. It's pretty well-established how to make it work. I personally don't care any more because hard drives have gotten a lot bigger, but it's technically quite feasible. > I see as quite pointless to use "let's export /usr via NFS" as an > argument, if Debian does not provide a way to make that setup tenable. Certainly looks tenable right now to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
