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<N) multi-user machines. My approach of mount at /mnt/server/home/ and symlink would avoid multiple mounts at a single client if the client were a multi-user machine rather than a workstation, but that's beside the point. Its beside the point because the real issue is traffic. You can set NFS up to run in UDP - that is connectionless - mode so that there are no permanent connections and hence no possible overloading of any limited connection tables at the server end. Yes you pay in performance, the set-up/tear-down, but that gets back to the traffic issue. Late model *NIX doesn't have the compiled-in table sizes of the V7 days! -- The emphasis should be on "why" we do a job - W. Edwards Deming -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org