Dear Srs, I have a bunch of machines (<20) and users (~15) working in a develoment facility. I like to keep home directories inside the server room - they're mounted via NFS.
This give me short times for disaster recovery, since the desktop machines can be recovered with partimage, and all relevant data is in the server room, where all machines are redundant, are under close supervision, and so on. In the downside: NFS is not as fast as a local filesystem (we've got 100Mbit ethernet, only), and from time to time this costs me something. Beagle, for instance, is not feasible for home directories this way. I'm considering to move the home diretories to the desktop machines, for performance, but the users will have to keep their desktops running even when they're away from their desks (in the lab, or telecommuting, for instance) the keep their homes available. Also, it will be necessary to extend the backup procedures outside the server room. In fact, I would have desktop machines acting as server ones, while running outside the controlled server room, and I really don't like it. What do you, gurus out there, think about that? Any suggestion? Does anyone know about some kind of home caching solution or something? Thaks a lot, -- João Roscoe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
