On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:59:05PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > Having a central filesystem also has the benefit of being able to > centrally upgrade the performance of the entire network. With everything > in one box, you just upgrade the RAM and IO subsystem and everyone feels > the boost. Plus you get to organize your organization's files, instead of > having files in various states of update on various workstations in your > network.
Well, having a central file system also means having a single point of failure. Make sure you make regular and frequent backups lest the failure of the central server for any reason whatsoever cause an apocalypse for your organization! And please note that this will probably not properly scale to much larger organizations and networks, although for the networks that almost all of us manage, my cousin's system will be more than adequate. It also doesn't work very well for geographically-dispersed collaborative work (CVS will probably work better for this). -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
