Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 03 April 2009 05:11:15 R P Herrold wrote:
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.
I took it for granted that CentOS would be server, not client. Silly to assume anything, I guess.
I've found it somewhat useful in development/test scenarios to export /home via nfs and samba from a physical machine, then use one or more vmware guests with the testing framework that mount the shared /home with the developers using the vmware guest machine for their work. The guests often run on the same physical host as the home directories but are somewhat disposable and easy to replace. The samba share from the physical side is more efficient than doing it from a guest and gives windows users easy access.