Re: Mounting /usr remotely?

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From: Bill Unruh
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00

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In <36a2fd16.0@news.pip.com.au> "Glenn Davy" <glenn@pip.com.au> writes:

>Is is possible, sane , or even common practice to mount my 'servers' usr,
>bin,  and home and other directories as directories on this machine and run
>my binaries across my network saving diskspace?
Sure you can. However it is probably a good idea to have a minimal
system so that in case the NFS server dies, you still have an operating
system so you can fix things. You could put some minimal commands into
/bin and /usr/bin, and then mount the remote system over top of /bin and
/ust/bin. That way you will have something in case of problems.

>Is it best to use nfs or smb to do this?

I would say nfs, but then I have never used smb.

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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
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