Yet another home directory layout...
We use AMD at the automounter on all of our platforms. Thus users see
their HOME as /homes/$USER. Some homes are under NFS, some under AFS.
We, also, use Hesiod for nameing maintainance. And by providing an "ls" that
is compiled to use hes_getpw*() first, we have gained a nearly 10X improvement
with long listings (ls -l) in NFS directories with hundreds of users (200-800,
depending). This will help AFS also as our passwd file is long, and BIND is
faster.
Our support structure covers many departments and Reasearch institutes,
which have their own fileservers and diskspace. So it is convienient to mount
things under /:/home/$group. This is also to help facilitate future use of
CMU's ADM software.
We are in the process of moving most of our users to AFS.
Those groups where there are hundreds or thousands of users, that are under
AFS we will use the /:/home/$group/u/s/user structure that many others
have adopted.
Randall
