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

[Grahame Bowland]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 11:29:33AM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> 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.

We will be setting this up as a sub-partion of the new /services, and 
will have a script that nukes it every night at midnight :-)

Good idea, we were discussing it yesterday though.

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