Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apollo:7107 comp.unix.admin:541 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cme!durer!rowe From: rowe@cme.nist.gov (Walter Rowe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: NFS Mount Point Strategy? Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 22:09:51 GMT References: <1990Nov10.144551.809@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1990Nov15.104044.23005@westc.uucp> Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 16 In-reply-to: martien@westc.uucp's message of 15 Nov 90 10:40:44 GMT You may want to read a paper that some colleagues and myself wrote recently. Its called "The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation Across Organizational and Unix Platform Bounderies". It details a mechanism we came up with here in our center for sharing large application distributions such as X windows, GNU software, and Frame Maker. You can get the paper from durer.cme.nist.gov (129.6.32.4) in a file called ~ftp/pub/depot.lisa.ps.Z. This paper was presented at the LISA conference in Colorado Springs last month. I welcome all to read it. We use the automounter here extensively for this type of thing, and the depot paper outlines some naming conventions we decided on here. wpr --- Walter Rowe rowe@cme.nist.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!rowe