NFS exports [was: Re: [tech] Re: [ucc-announce] (Downtime) Sunday]

[Alastair Irvine]

On Mon, 08 May, 2000 at 11:10:52AM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:01:58AM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> > Can someone remind me why we need 4G for /services?
> 
> Can someone remind me why we need 6G for /home, let alone more? It just
> makes it even harder to organise some kind of a backup give that UCC's
> handiest tape drive is only 2G.
> 
> <shrug> There's definitely stuff which can go (two copies of the Redhat
> 6.0 ISO image?) but it's also the only spot to put everything in the
> UCC that isn't machine specific, as it's the other NFS-exported area
> available on every machine.

We should consider making another NFS-exported area called /scratch (on the
same physical disk(s) as home) where people can put stuff which is not
important or should not be backed up.  It should be o+t of course.

When moving stuff to such a directory, people should be asked to refer to
/services so that stuff which we already have can be deleted instead of
moved.  A possibility is /scratch/dists where people can extract source
packages; maybe a LOCK file can be left in each subdir for as long as
someone is using it, then do a "make distclean" or whatever.  Of course,
trustworthiness is an issue.

-- 
... "Of course I'm a wizard, son.  I've got a tall pointy hat!"
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