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

[Simon Fryer]

Bing

[chomp]

> A while ago Duncan Sargeant tapped:

> > > 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?

There is no point to this directory really. There is *no* really good
solution to this problem. Compiling in home directorys is slow because
of NFS but this should be improved RSN. Home directorys are however the
best solution. 

/tmp is asking for problems as it is usually on the / partition, which
also has the /var and /usr partitions on most UCC linux boxen. So the
/partition will fill and the box will fall over and everyone will wonder
why - after all it is going to write logs to a  110% full disk - isn't it!

As a general rule - stuff for compiling on UCCboxen as UCC install
software I compile in /usr/local/src. Any personal compiles are done in
my home directory. 

> > 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?

I for one am on insufficient ammounts of caffine. Hence the faciest
attitude. 

Make /services small and grow it as nessesary. Make /home large and grow
it as money for disk space and storageworks bricks allow. Encourage
people to develop on Tru64 from their local home directorys.

See Ya
Simon
(In an idealistic ranting mood)
(Who is sick of bad code out of the linux archive)

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