I have been doing some homework, and I have found some info on Caching NFS clients. Well what abou that? Does anyone of those caching clients out there has became more than research stuff? Is there a debian way to do that kind of stuff?
Cheers, Joao On Friday 29 August 2008 15:18, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote: > Dear Srs, > > I have a bunch of machines (<20) and users (~15) working in a develoment > facility. > I like to keep home directories inside the server room - they're mounted via > NFS. > > This give me short times for disaster recovery, since the desktop machines > can be > recovered with partimage, and all relevant data is in the server room, where > all > machines are redundant, are under close supervision, and so on. > > In the downside: NFS is not as fast as a local filesystem (we've got 100Mbit > ethernet, only), and from time to time this costs me something. Beagle, for > instance, is not feasible for home directories this way. > > I'm considering to move the home diretories to the desktop machines, for > performance, but the users will have to keep their desktops running even when > they're away from their desks (in the lab, or telecommuting, for instance) > the keep > their homes available. Also, it will be necessary to extend the backup > procedures > outside the server room. In fact, I would have desktop machines acting as > server > ones, while running outside the controlled server room, and I really don't > like it. > > What do you, gurus out there, think about that? Any suggestion? Does anyone > know > about some kind of home caching solution or something? > > Thaks a lot, > -- > João Roscoe > > -- João Carlos de Lima Roscoe Magneti Marelli Sist Aut LTDA SW development - P&D/DLO Hortolandia - SP - Brazil Phone: +55 19 2118 6552 Fax: +55 19 2118 6379 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
