Re: nfs: fstab or automount/thread hijack
From: Tony Shadwick (tshadwick_at_goinet.com)
Date: 05/23/05
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Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:33:13 -0500 (CDT) To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Hmm...hadn't really thought about the config you're suggesting of just
mounting user's homes as needed. Quite the thought. :)
I've always just mounted /home as a whole. Now you're going to have my
mind running.
I'm going to hijack this thread just a bit. Is anyone here other htan me
having to deal with multiplatform issues with home directories?
Example: I use Firefox on all of my machines as the default web browser.
When mounting /home, one would think this would be a snap. It's not
though.
I believe Linux and FreeBSD place Firefox's prefs in ~/.mozilla/firefox.
When it mounts on MacOS X, OS X goes looking for them in
~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox. I tried to get smart about it and
simply create a simlink, but it seems like the very structure of that
directory gets messed up. I've tried doing something similar for
Thunderbird as well, but I wanted to go one step at a time.
If I get this working, then we'll work on my remotely mounted home on
windows and my stored prefs. ;)
The idea is to eventually have a relatively platform-inspecific home
directory. Been working on it for ages. Anyway, just a thought.
Tony
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Ryan Winograd <rylwin@houston.rr.com> writes:
>
>> If I set up a network in which the /home directory is shared to all
>> client computers, is it better to have the clients mount the nfs share
>> in fstab or to let automount handle the mounting? What are the pros
>> and cons of each?
>
> An automounter can let you mount each individual user's home directory
> only as needed (and dismount it when it's not being used.). If you're
> going to mount the whole tree, with the home directories for *all* of
> the users, then you might as well do it once at the start and be done
> with it.
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