Paul,
Thanks for your thoughts; they'll be helpful in designing our new cell
structure. A few questions:
At 6:47 AM -0500 9/28/99, Paul Blackburn wrote:
>Hello Dave,
>
>Some thoughts about cell layout. At /afs/@cell, we have:
>
> @sys-dirs architecture specific binaries and libraries
> rs_aix41 rs_aix42 rs_aix43 etc
Do you install each package in a separate volume per @sys, or do you have a
common volume containing all architechtures? This seems to be the major
issue about which folks here have waflled in the past. Some packages, like
Matlab, seem to go better if there is a separate volume for each
architechture because the authors wrote with single-platform installations
in mind. Others, like Perl and Sendmail, expect to mingle architechtures
within their trees, and they know how to separate architechture-specific
files from architechture-independant ones. I'd appreciate anyone's
comments on this issue.
The comments about home directories were also helpful. We don't have any
home directories in AFS yet, but we'd like to move in that direction once
we change /bin/login.
Regards,
Dave
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