Re: shared NFS systems
>>>>> "Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> writes:
Kirk> By auditing the list for extra-/usr packages, we isolated
Kirk> everything that *had* to be installed locally. The only
Kirk> sub-optimal part was that each client had ~10MB of stuff in
Kirk> /usr from the required packages, but that stuff got masked
Kirk> by the NFS mount.
file system unions (as mentioned by Matt) might(?) help here.
Ideally a proper solution would eliminate the need to manual
audit the packages, too.
I imagine you would have to audit the packages every upgrade.
To get this right: did you have to manually install a package on every
computer if it contained any files under /etc or /var?
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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