Dave Howorth said the following on 08/09/2012 09:55 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
We can clearly identify thing like /usr/share which seem to have been designed to be shared in this way. Logically at least even non-think machines can share that resource.
Not sure what a 'non-think' machine is, but certainly machines with different hardware architectures can share those directories.
sorry: typo - "non-THIN". You recall I had been discussing 'thin clients'
There may be development libraries which it is easier to keep updated at a single point: /usr/lib/ruby, or if you are obsessive many of the library directories under /usr/lib.
IMHO, it is better to keep local copies of libraries, mainly for performance reasons. In the case of development libraries there are likely to be different versions in dev, test & production and careful and comprehensive version management should be in place.
YMMV. When I'm deal with large institutional clients I address the problems differently from SMBs and one man shops. Not everyone had a dedicated IT department, a dedicated ITIL trained staff, a dedicated InfoSec department and trained staff, and so forth. As I keep saying Context is Everything
There may also be shared resources like corporate cryptographic keys.
And you want to trust those to NFS :) You're avvin a larf, aincha?
Oh most certainly. At home. On my server. So when I take my laptop or smartphone or pad away the key stays at home. And no it can't be accessed by wifi and no it can't be accessed by NFS other than from a known machine (MAC) after mounting the crypto partition with 34 character passphrase that is not recorded anywhere. Go on, laugh. -- All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org