Re: Use iSCSI for remote /home?

2020-12-25 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 25Dec2020 13:53, Richard Shaw wrote: >Based on the feedback, I settled on NFS for /home sharing because I >really just want to share files, [...] I just want to reiterate what Jorge Fábregas said: DO NOT use iscsi to _share_ a filesystem. I know you're not, but it isn't clear to me that you

Re: Use iSCSI for remote /home?

2020-12-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 7:45 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > 2. A lot of the time a package is building the CPU is waiting on the SD card > even though it's a class 10. I'm betting IO would be faster over my gigabit > Ethernet. AND save all the writing to the SD card, extending it's life. USB stick a

Re: Creating a Btrfs subvolume

2020-12-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 11:27 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > Let me ask you how will snapshotting and restoration work with nested sub > volumes? They have to be moved into the new position following the rollback. This could be done either with a literal 'mv' or you could just snapshot the old

Re: Use iSCSI for remote /home?

2020-12-25 Thread Richard Shaw
Thanks for all the input! Based on the feedback, I settled on NFS for /home sharing because I really just want to share files, but my point #2 still stands. I may try setting up a dedicated /var/lb/mock using iSCSI to prevent SD card degradation and improve build performance. Thanks, Richard ___

Re: Creating a Btrfs subvolume

2020-12-25 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 8:22 am Chris Murphy, wrote: > (I did read the whole thread but I'm gonna reply three times anyway :D) > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 6:29 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > I have a directory I use to hold a Windows VM disk image > > (/home/Windows/...), and would like to

Re: Use iSCSI for remote /home?

2020-12-25 Thread John Mellor
On 2020-12-25 9:44 a.m., Richard Shaw wrote: Right now I have duplicate users on it and use scp to push files over to it but had a thought... Could I completely replace /home with my desktop F33 system using iSCSI? I like this idea for two reasons: 1. I would have access to the identical file

Re: Use iSCSI for remote /home?

2020-12-25 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 12/25/20 10:44 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Could I completely replace /home with my desktop F33 system using > iSCSI? Hi, Assuming you'll have /home mounted on both systems *at the same time* then you can't use iSCSI unless you use a cluster filesystem like GFS2 or OCFS2 on top of the LUN (plus

Re: Use iSCSI for remote /home?

2020-12-25 Thread Qiyu Yan
Why not try nfs, which would be easier to set up? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-con

Use iSCSI for remote /home?

2020-12-25 Thread Richard Shaw
I have a Nvidia Jetson Nano w/ Fedora 33 Workstation I'm using for some aarch64 package development. Right now I have duplicate users on it and use scp to push files over to it but had a thought... Could I completely replace /home with my desktop F33 system using iSCSI? I like this idea for two