Hi all, We have a situation where students need to work on a large CAD model (~15GB made up of ~5,100 files). The preference would be to store a static read-only copy of the model on a local SSD for the entire semester but save any changes individually to the students' home directory mounted from a NFS server (shared across all of the workstations). Theoretically the students could then continue with their own individual changes stored in their home directory using any of the workstations as long as the underlying static copy of the model is locally stored the same on every workstation.
One additional concern is performance when doing a directory listing given that there's so many files that would need to be compared (local vs NFS). The text file describing UnionFS ODF support appears to address those performance issues (point #5 "Directory Reading" at http://www.filesystems.org/unionfs-odf.txt ) but the ODF support doesn't appear to be updated since version 2.1.11 of UnionFS in 2007. If anyone has any suggestions as to whether UnionFS is a good fit for the above scenario and/or whether ODF support is beneficial in the above scenario, any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list: http://unionfs.filesystems.org/ [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
