On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Alex Efros wrote: > AFAIK "remote /usr" idea was born many years ago, when hard drive sizes > was too small. Nowadays this has no sense anymore. > > And from management/administration view sharing /usr between many > servers isn't significantly help because most complexity in > administration is updating /etc, not /usr. > > Probably I miss something important but I've no idea how "remote /usr" > can make administration easier nowadays...
There are several very good reasons for using a remote-mounted /usr: - You can mount it read-only so it can't be modified - You can easily 're-task' a server by changing what it mounts - Your data is easier to update - Your data is easier to backup Additional complexity (to simplify things a bit) is about as complicated changing your fstab to point at an NFS server rather than a local device. If I've got more than 3 or 4 servers to manage in a deployment I typically use remote-mounted root and /usr filesystems - it makes life an awful lot easier. -Ronan -- [email protected] mailing list
