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.
<br><br>But it was so cool to log onto any computer and get the same window manager, settings, home directory, etc.<br><br>It sounds like AFS is the way to do it. Doing it on a budget, that will be the trick.<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 4/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric Cooper</b> <<a href="mailto:ecc@cmu.edu">ecc@cmu.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 12:13:05AM -0400, Michael H. Semcheski wrote:<br>> I guess one question specific question for anyone out there -- have<br>> you tried mounting /home over NFS or AFS?<br><br>This is exactly what AFS was designed for. In the Andrew system at
<br>CMU, workstations were all interchangeable -- the local disk was used<br>as an AFS cache, and all applications and user data were on the AFS<br>servers.<br><br>I've never administered it myself, but my sense is that AFS is more
<br>complex to set up, but in return provides much better performance than<br>an all-NFS (i.e. diskless) setup.<br><br>--<br>Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u<br>_______________________________________________
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