From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 21 9:48:27 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 09:48:25 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95AAB37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eBLHh1x08604; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:43:01 -0800 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:43:01 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Wes Peters Cc: Mike Nowlin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping lots of systems all the same... Message-ID: <20001221094301.C1391@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3A41C329.6E3C1EFD@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A41C329.6E3C1EFD@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:45:29AM -0700 Sender: brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:45:29AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Figure 32MB RAM for FreeBSD & X, 64MB for Netscape, and 64MB for StarOffice. > If you want to run both Netscape and StarOffice at the same time, 128MB > isn't enough. Sigh. Definatly true. :-( > If your users have a "usual" work position, you may way to place their home > directory on that machine. Export all the home directories and mount them > on the other machines using amd. This does make the amd configuration differ > from machine to machine, however. If you do it right the files will be the same on each machine. This simple example shows how to keep a solaris box from loopback nfs mounting its own file systems. A more complicated setup would do what you describe with a single amd map (possiable shared via your favorite directory service): * -rfs:=/export/home/${key} \ host==draupnir;type:=lofs \ host!=draupnir;rhost:=draupnir > Good luck, and write an article about it when you're done. DaemonNews would > be happy to publish it. ;^) That would be a really nice article. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message