nfs: fstab or automount/thread hijack

[Tony Shadwick]

Hmm...hadn't really thought about the config you're suggesting of just 
mounting user's homes as needed.  Quite the thought. :)

I've always just mounted /home as a whole.  Now you're going to have my 
mind running.

I'm going to hijack this thread just a bit.  Is anyone here other htan me 
having to deal with multiplatform issues with home directories?

Example:  I use Firefox on all of my machines as the default web browser. 
When mounting /home, one would think this would be a snap.  It's not 
though.

I believe Linux and FreeBSD place Firefox's prefs in ~/.mozilla/firefox. 
When it mounts on MacOS X, OS X goes looking for them in 
~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox.  I tried to get smart about it and 
simply create a simlink, but it seems like the very structure of that 
directory gets messed up.  I've tried doing something similar for 
Thunderbird as well, but I wanted to go one step at a time.

If I get this working, then we'll work on my remotely mounted home on 
windows and my stored prefs. ;)

The idea is to eventually have a relatively platform-inspecific home 
directory.  Been working on it for ages.  Anyway, just a thought.

Tony

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Ryan Winograd <rylwin at houston.rr.com> writes:
>
>> If I set up a network in which the /home directory is shared to all
>> client computers, is it better to have the clients mount the nfs share
>> in fstab or to let automount handle the mounting? What are the pros
>> and cons of each?
>
> An automounter can let you mount each individual user's home directory
> only as needed (and dismount it when it's not being used.).  If you're
> going to mount the whole tree, with the home directories for *all* of
> the users, then you might as well do it once at the start and be done
> with it.
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