On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left.
I have /home exported and ran the upgrade from this laptop over the network, where that directory is mounted and displayed in a folderview under KDE4. I had no problems whatsoever. Is this the sort of situation you mean?
yup -- exports to another would not be affected by root_squash.
To some degree, the fact that upstream did not detect the issue, and I missed it in testing, was a wry observation that the 'old ways' of a common set of /home/ exported from a very reliably 'up' box through an office, is passing away.
The takeaway was that I need to 'test as I do, and do as I test'. My testing regime will have to include 'cloning' a test box, and simply 'moving into it' for an afternoon when doing 'updates' QA testing.
-- Russ herrold