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

Duncan Sargeant dunc at rcpt.to
Mon May 8 14:58:09 WST 2000


Grahame Bowland wrote on Mon May 08, at 12:32 +0800:
> 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.

What's the point of this directory?  What do I use it for?  Why don't I
use my home directory or /tmp?

> 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 :-)

Has /services/tmp got scabies or something?

> Good idea, we were discussing it yesterday though.

We're all on crack today, aren't we gentlemen?  You playing pusherman
between jobs nick?

,dunc




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