From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 05:59:07 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA07382 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 May 1995 05:59:07 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA07372 for ; Sun, 28 May 1995 05:59:02 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA04331; Sun, 28 May 1995 20:59:13 +0800 Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 20:59:11 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS-L Subject: What can be safely NFS-mounted? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have two SGI's sitting here with 8 gigabytes of disk between the two. Since the four FreeBSD machines (with the possibility of two more coming in the summer) all run identical snapshots and XFree86, I thought it would be more economical to have the /usr/{include,local, share,src,X11R6} hierarchies served from one of the SGI. The rest of /usr, /var, /etc, and so on would of course be on local disks. Truly machine-specific files (like the X server binary, or the xdm config file) would be replaced by a link to the file in /etc. Are there any caveats I should beware of when moving such a large portion of the filesystem to an NFS server? Or should I wimp out and use an rdist to synchronize the machines whenever I add/modify files? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org