Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:33:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ryan Winograd <rylwin@houston.rr.com> Subject: Re: nfs: fstab or automount/thread hijack Message-ID: <20050523112914.T47072@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <44ll66x863.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <4291531B.6050906@houston.rr.com> <44ll66x863.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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