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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-04-20 4:24 PM, Adam Thompson
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style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> - NFS-mounted home
directories, which allow easy central management and are
portable across every workstation, but are (typically, and in
my case) IOPS-limited,</div>
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directories, which are tied to the workstation but offer great
performance</div>
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style="font-family:monospace,monospace">At this point I'm
seriously considering things like GlusterFS, Lustre, CephFS,
etc., because the NFS performance sucks so badly for doing
things like a) running Chrome, and b) running VirtualBox.</div>
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I'd stay away from Gluster for home directories... too many small
files. The performance drops dramatically. I used gluster for
virtual machines images, and performance was good.<br>
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My solution for syncing home directories turned into using
Bittorrent Sync. Replication isn't immediate, but it's fast
enough. I also decided to sync only a single directory and not the
whole home dir. That way, as a user, I could specify what I wanted
to sync and what I didn't. For example, one machine has a huge
downloads directory. No use syncing that to my Mac laptop.<br>
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Gerald<br>
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