[Gllug] Multiple Distro's, one swap partition?

[Christian Smith]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Nix wrote:

>On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Alain Williams stated:
>> Either create a /home_real (or something) and put real user's $HOMEs
>> here, or creating a /home partition in the first distro that you in,
>> but not in subsequent ones and symlink real user directories over in
>> subsequent ones.
>
>I evolved something which, well, it seems to work and is pretty robust
>(against everything but usernames starting with dots; how likely is
>that?)
>
>You have a bunch of machines which serve home directories. Each of these
>has a directory /home/.{machine-FQDN}/; home directories for it are
>under there.
>
>So I might have
>
>/home/.svn.esperi.org.uk/nix
>/home/.svn.esperi.org.uk/gerald
>/home/.inferno.esperi.org.uk/locutus
>/home/.inferno.esperi.org.uk/billg
>/home/.inferno.esperi.org.uk/darl
>
> etc....

Just curious, why?

I can understand that this may spread the load, and that users can
effectively have nearly native disk speed for home access on their
machine, but is this really necassary?

Doesn't it complicate backup?

Christian

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