On Tuesday 03 February 2009 05:12:09 Aneurin Price wrote: > However, I don't know of any system quite like roaming profiles for > Linux. NFS /home isn't really the same in the general case because it > relies on a constant connection between client and server, or things will > be bad.
AFS /home then. There are network filesystems other than NFS. > For something like a laptop, or any non-high-availability > situation, what's really needed is NFS with transparent local caching, > and so far as I'm aware it doesn't exist, presumably because the > synchronisation would be a bitch. If it *does* exist in usable form, I > would be grateful to hear about it! Start with AFS, and then also investigate the various forks that have support on Linux. You might find one to meet your needs. (I think all of them as dependent on being able to get Kerberos credentials, so *some* connectivity is required.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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