[wplug] Starting From Scratch

[Michael H. Semcheski]

This is what I'd like to do -- when I was at CMU (back around the turn of
the century), I thought that the Redhat Linux clusters were the best on
campus.  The solaris and irix machines were alright, but the linux machines
were beefier.

But it was so cool to log onto any computer and get the same window manager,
settings, home directory, etc.

It sounds like AFS is the way to do it.  Doing it on a budget, that will be
the trick.

On 4/21/07, Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 12:13:05AM -0400, Michael H. Semcheski wrote:
> > I guess one question specific question for anyone out there -- have
> > you tried mounting /home over NFS or AFS?
>
> This is exactly what AFS was designed for.  In the Andrew system at
> CMU, workstations were all interchangeable -- the local disk was used
> as an AFS cache, and all applications and user data were on the AFS
> servers.
>
> I've never administered it myself, but my sense is that AFS is more
> complex to set up, but in return provides much better performance than
> an all-NFS (i.e. diskless) setup.
>
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> Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u
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