28 Mar
2012
28 Mar
'12
09:49
Hans Witvliet said the following on 03/28/2012 03:11 AM:
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 23:48 -0400, Dirk Gently wrote:
Anyone who NFS mounts something over all of /home is doing it wrong.
Remote home directories should ALWAYS be mounted individually, and should be automounted.
Perhaps it is allready been solved, but i remember a scaling problem with that. Giving each user it's own nfs-mount works ok, and has also a number of other nice options (krb, encrypt), but does it also perform for larger number of users, let say >>1000 ?
(but as said, this could be a thing of the past)
One workstation, one user AT A TIME.
The 'scaling' issue is at the server end.
That applies whether you have N individual single user workstations or N
users on M (for M