Darren J Moffat wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Bart Smaalders wrote:
We really want our home directories today to always be /home/<user>
in /etc/passwd; that way things Just Work (TM) when we move from
host to host.
I agree that it makes a lot of sense to be consistent.
But hey, the installer, by default creates the filesystem
'/export/home' and the name seems to suggest that that is the place to
house home directories.
Is that not the intent of that filesystem? Am I just confused? ;)
It is traditionally that is for the actual local filesystem store of the
home directories on the NFS server. It is just our installer isn't
aware of what the system is used for. It also dates back to an era when
many people had their home dir locally on their workstation but shared
them out.
'NIS account + NFS hosted home' is typical inside SWAN.
But for many, 'no NIS + local account' is what is needed - even in this
era. ;)
For such systems, it makes sense for the slice that now (by default)
holds '/export/home' to host the home folder by default.
See my other post for a proposal to bring us into a more modern era -
basically turn off /home as an automount point when only using local
files for nsswitch.conf's automount database.
Yes, and Bart's suggestion of having the automounter do lofs mount also
sounds good.
Your suggestion of using zfs do the nfs/local mounts sounds good. But it
means that we would have to wait for the installer to become zfs aware...
-Manoj
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