On 13/11/20 07:58, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
On 11/12/20 9:52 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Never use file locking on NFS. Period. One day it *will* bite you,
due to some yet-to-be-discovered bug. In the meantime, feel free to
ignore the advice of those who have been there before...
Thanks for the advice.
What protocol do you suggest, instead, for sharing data to a diskless
client?
I don't have a suggestion for "diskless" but since we're not i the 80's
anymore, all machines come with some kind of disk controller and small
disks (even decent SSD ones) don't cost so much, I'd suggest you install
a minimal OS on the machine and use something like unison or syncthing
to synchronize what you need.
I'm doing this with my home directory with very good results. Personally
I don't sync firefox and thunderbird profiles though, and have other
exceptions (cache directories for npm and php-composer for example).
I also think the synchronizing approach has advantage: Multiple copies
of the data are usually a good thing, I can use this with my laptop too,
just remember to sync it back as soon as I am back home, before using
other machines!
YMMV
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Guido Falsi <m...@madpilot.net>
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