Nelson Minar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : What's the right solution? Assume disk is cheap, bandwidth is fairly : cheap, but sysadmin time is really expensive. If Debian could provide : some solution, it would be a big help to Linux administrators.
The solution running here is: 1) /, /etc, /var in one partition locally on each machine. Configuration is still too machine dependent. 2) /usr mounted via NFS. The disk really hosting the /usr files is a DEC-Alpha but each Linux machine could serve as well. 3) /usr/local is a symbolic link to /local on each machine. Here, machine specific applications are stored. They should not be touched by Debian packages. Due to the strict separation between configuration files and programs in Debian, this works quite well. All programs except for those installed in /usr/local have to be maintained only centrally. The netload due to the program loading on execution is still relatively small compared to the load produced by the real data which are also often treated via NFSi here. Hope this helps. Best regards -- Volker -------------------------------------------------------------------- Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und \\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324 ----------------------------------oOo--(_)--oOo--------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]