zfs home directories best practice

[Guido Falsi]

On 04/04/13 04:20, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> Having a good NFS automounter on the clients is useful if you have a
> home directory per user.  The AMD automounter which comes with FreeBSD
> is just barely competent for the task.  It is able to automount user
> home directories on request but not enumerate them via 'ls /home/*' as
> Solaris and Apple OS X clients can.  It will only list the currently
> automounted directories.

amd has a "browsable_dirs" directive in it's configuration file which 
should do exactly what you ask. On a small scale it works fine, I don't 
know if it has heavy downsides on a large scale system like the one you 
are talking about.

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>