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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: disk allocation strategy
Message-ID: <1990May24.071122.7009@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 24 May 90 07:11:22 GMT
Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions)
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In article <1990May17.220613.21280@unx.sas.com> kent@mozart.unx.sas.com (Paul Kent) writes:
> Where do you put the user directories?
> 
>   distributed over the 20 odd departmental file servers
>   on each individuals workstation. (along with OS and swap space)
> 
> I would appreciate any notes from people with setups like this,
> on the pros and cons of centralised user directories, and the
> management of all the NFS cross mounting.

One potential problem that i see is how to back up distributed user's
directories.  If they are centralized, they can be more easily backed up.

derek
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Derek Terveer		det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG