On Thu, 14 May 2009 14:16:46 +0200, Raph wrote: > > What's wrong with creating each user's home directory on one computer > > and exporting it to the others over NFS? If each user has a preferred > > workstation, this will also reduce network usage. > > If I understand you well, each "client" /etc/exports would be : > /home/user0 server.domain(rw) > ... > /home/user378 server.domain(rw) > All the directories have not only to exists but not to be empty > has it would conflict with the others clients serving the "already used" > versions (says for exemple pc14.domain which > contains /home/user33/foo.bar) > > Then in each "client" /etc/fstab I would put : > server:/home/user0 /home/user0 defaults 0 0 > ... > server:/home/user378 /home/user378 defaults > 0 0
I meant that each machine would have one or two home directories that would be exported to the others. In the simplest case, N users and N computers, each box would have one line in /etc/exports /home/user1 netmask(rw) and N-1 lines in /etc/fstab. box2:/home/user2 /home/user2 ... boxN:/home/userN /home/userN That way you reduce the impact of one failed machine to only the user directories on that box, instead of the whole LV. -- Neil Bothwick "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development."
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