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Old 02-03-2020, 09:48 AM   #1
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Hi,When is better(recommended) that users home directory to be on a NAS(nfs share) or in local server disk?tnx
 
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~/home on a NAS? What happens when you boot and the NAS is not on?
What are you trying to do, share $HOME between remote users?
 
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Is this a homework question?
 
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You can keep all /home directories on a NAS, yes, but as teckk mentioned, what if the NAS is offline. Also, you will need decent bandwidth, like a fiber backend so the end user's don't notice the lag when logging in. This example is in a corporate environment. At home, keeping /home on a network share is pointless because you can back them up to a NAS, accomplishing the same thing but not getting a performance hit.
 
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The only case I know about is: when you work on a lot of different hosts and wanted to have the same user config. But it is not a home network.
 
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it is a production environment.i was thinking that if we have /home on NAS then there will be another backup way (SAN to SAN) beside the enterprise backup.If i like to grow the size of /home it is much easier.
 
  


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