FireFox keeps loosing data

[Guido Falsi]

On 13/11/20 07:58, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 11/12/20 9:52 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 
>> Never use file locking on NFS.  Period.  One day it *will* bite you, 
>> due to some yet-to-be-discovered bug.  In the meantime, feel free to 
>> ignore the advice of those who have been there before...
> 
> Thanks for the advice.
> What protocol do you suggest, instead, for sharing data to a diskless 
> client?

I don't have a suggestion for "diskless" but since we're not i  the 80's 
anymore, all machines come with some kind of disk controller and small 
disks (even decent SSD ones) don't cost so much, I'd suggest you install 
a minimal OS on the machine and use something like unison or syncthing 
to synchronize what you need.

I'm doing this with my home directory with very good results. Personally 
I don't sync firefox and thunderbird profiles though, and have other 
exceptions (cache directories for npm and php-composer for example).

I also think the synchronizing approach has advantage: Multiple copies 
of the data are usually a good thing, I can use this with my laptop too, 
just remember to sync it back as soon as I am back home, before using 
other machines!

YMMV

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>