Lo, on Wednesday, October 24, joe golden did write: > I am getting tired of updating 7 machines. I have home directories > exported NFS for our network (with minimal security concerns) and this > seems to work fine. > > My question is how do I export usr NFS. What are the configuration > issues. How must disks be partitioned? Are all the X/card and monitor > specifics guaranteed to be all in /etc? If any of these specs are in usr > I'll have hashed spaghetti flying everywhere in no time.
So long as the distributions in question follow the FHS (see http://www.pathname.com/ for details), then sharing /usr like this is fine. According to the FHS, /usr is for shareable, read-only data; config files belong in /etc. I'm pretty sure Debian qualifies here. I don't think partitioning is relevant to this situation; NFS exports files and directories based on the directory structure, not the physical devices. > I was looking for advice on pitfalls to avoid. The only thing I'm not sure how to do is keep /usr/local local to each machine, even though /usr is mounted across the network. This may or may not be a requirement in your situation, however. HTH, Richard
