Re: [tlug] share

[Martin Baehr <mbaehr@example.com>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:04:41AM +0900, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> You've just constrained that a *lot* :-p  Who do you know
> with such a uniform network?  It's hard to find that much
> uniformity even on a Windows network.  I deal with two flavors
> of BSD, Solaris on Sparc and Intel, several flavors of Linux,
> and several different versions of those.  I don't think I
> want to go around sharing /usr :-)

well, yeah, if you let everyone install and manage their own machines
then of course. but everywhere where you have a public workstationroom
and no personal machines it would be stupid not to install the 
same distribution on all machines.

universities, internetcafes, schools...
there are plenty of places for shared machines.

> OK, there's one thing you can share: have all your users NFS mount
> /home, which is not on their local machine at all.  Solves your
> backup problem.  Apart from that, I would prefer to steer away
> from sharing the rest 

why, do you want to run around and upgrade every machine manually?

> unless I was going all the way to the other
> extreme and booting everything over the LAN.  

well, of course, but wasn't the original question something like
which directories can not be shared even in that situation?

> Stand back and pass the Gig-E please :-)

huh?
100mbit to slow for you?

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