24 Sep
2005
24 Sep
'05
3:12 p.m.
At 8:55 AM -0400 9/24/05, Tim Shoppa wrote:
On a system with a large number of users and spindles,
very often
there were multiple root directories used for home directories. For
example there would be a disk mounted as /users1 and it would
have user's home directories of /users1/aaron and /users1/able and
/users1/acton etc., and then there would be a disk mounted as /users2
and it would have a bunch of home directories on it, etc.
In large Unix environments this can still be the case. Sure most
users have their own Unix box, or share one with a few others, but
the home directories are out in NFS. That way people can access
their home directory from any system. We typically use
/foo/bar/username, and have dozens of home directory disks, spread
over dozens of multi-terabyte fileservers.
Zane
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