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  • 1.  NFS mounted /home

    Posted Thu January 22, 2009 07:56 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    I am considering putting /home on the SAN and NFS mounting it to a small number of development servers to allow users to have access to their files across servers. Are there any gotchas or negatives to consider? Is soft mounting /home ok? I found with the default hard mount the lpars will hang on shutdown as en0 is shutdown before /home is unmounted and it will sit there forever waiting for the NFS server to respond.
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  • 2.  Re: NFS mounted /home

    Posted Thu February 05, 2009 09:11 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    You do not want to mount your users home directories over /home. If you look there are system accounts that use /home and many applications also use that for application type accounts that get created when installing software. If you mount /home with the NFS share then all these system accounts will lose there home directories and it could impact applications. /home is more common in the Solaris world as they have a default mount point of /home for mounting NFS / automounts. I would recommend you create a separate directory like /users or /company_name and mount your home dirs off that via NFS. This way /home is left for your system accounts to use as they need.
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