Re: "Sharing" files in Linux

At school, we have something very similar to this; we have ~30 machines
(all solaris boxes; our main all-purpose box, 30-odd workstations, our
web server, etc) sharing one /usr/local that stored on a netapp filer.
Almost everything runs from there, and is plenty fast. Also relevant, we
store all the home directories on the same filer, and mount them on an
as-needed basis using autofs. (That is, when I'm not logged into a
workstation, /home/me isn't mounted; when I log in, it mounts it for me,
and when I log out, it unmounts it)

The really nice thing about this is that home directories are extremely
portable; most of our machines are solaris-on-sparc, but we have a
debian-on-IA32 machine that does the same autofs trick; good for moving
files around, although my ~/local doesn't work too well, for obvious
reasons.

Also, we use NAST to maintain password and user information across the
whole cluster; the result is that we have a very smooth system indeed.

        --Mac

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 20:19, captgoodnight@acsalaska.net wrote:
> On Monday 05 April 2004 08:31 am, barsalou wrote:
> > So if a guy was going to setup Linux in a "workgroup" way, like you
> > might setup Windows...what would be the standard way of doing this?
> Look at FHS (filesystem hierarchy standard)
> > I would suppose NFS, or SMB. Anyone have any experience with this?
> >
> > There was also a question about, how might you setup an enterprise.
> > Many workstation, one server.
> >
> > How about starting a design conversation?
> >
> > Mike
> >
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> This sounds fun. I use nfs, works like a charm on 5 (pop3sd, ntp, ssh, smtp, thp, ipp, vmware, squid, snort in and out, arpd,httpd, synergy, honeyd).
> If I had say 10-15 workstations, and a couple servers, I would love
> to try the idea out of sharing the same /usr and /usr/local from the servers to the workstations; updates would be a breeze,
> admin work would be a cake walk once setup. Setup a central log server too. Oh this sounds fun, I just got done studying a
> little of the FHS standard, this is a good place to look for ideas. Setup would be cake if all the machines ran the same distro.
> Ya know, thinking about this, if anyone wants help in doing this, I would love to contribute, I work 4 10s and have fri,sat,sun off.
> Oh this makes me happy.....
>
> bests,
> eddie
>
> ps 35-50million |:P() doop, I felt like I forgot to quote another variable again!
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