> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:08:56PM +0100, isdtor wrote: >> Are there any documented best practices for using NFS home >> directories on laptops? Right now, and this is on CentOS 7, when I >> disconnect the machine from the network, the desktop freezes, and I >> can't even tell if the machine switches to the wireless network. If >> this sort of adapter switching, which is standard in e.g. Windows >> 10, is even supported. > > I'd say: Don't do it. > > NFS does not handle disconnected operations well, nor does the client > handle IP migrations well. You'd have to restart the client to get it > to work, most likely, and processes that are living in $HOME would > need to be killed before you could unmount it. > > There is some effort being made in making fscache work with NFS but > I've not had much luck in CentOS7 or 8. It still wouldn't help with > IP roaming. > > Best advice I can offer is to make $HOME local but have symlinks into > NFS for directories that can be safely unmounted and remounted. > > Windows doesn't really have network home directories like UNIX does, > and their SMB client handles IP roaming better. But, if your configuration makes sure that the IP address stays the same, shouldn't it work then, at least with UDP? Simon