Dave Howorth wrote:

Joachim Schrod wrote:

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Well, I would say that unavailability of the files beneith one's home directory usually makes one's system very unusable as well. What do you do after login? Play xpat2 (not possible, has been removed from openSUSE... ;-))?

I would never trade the convenience of an NFS-based home against the minimal chance that I want to log in and the NFS server ain't there in this moment... Then I could not work anyhow, the server problem has to be fixed first.

What you do after login is try to diagnose the problem with the server! It's more difficult to diagnose it if you can't get a terminal running :)

If you want to support that use case, you can make *one* user with a local home case in a different place than /home. Since all your files won't be available anyhow, this ain't different than logging in. (The first ls -l in the home directory with sub-dirs mounted per autofs on would try to mount the unavailable NFS server and would run into long timeouts anyhow.)

PPS e.g. Running different firefox environments is more complicated with an NFS home as opposed to a local home with NFS-mounted subdirectories.

I don't understand this use case. What are different firefox environments? -- Different configurations for the same firefox version? That's what firefox's profiles are for, aren't they? -- Installation of different firefox versions? That's what different user ids are for; one uses another GUI session on another console, or uses VirtualBox/VMware. (Or uses ssh w/ X forwarding, if one knows how to start firefox properly.) Why do you need local homes here? It leads to different home directories on different systems and thus different firefox configuration dirs. If you want that you can simply use a 2nd uid, no need to have a whole new host with the added complexity of NFS-mounted subdirs for that. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org