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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">I'm looking for the
          sweet spot between:</div>
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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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          style="font-family:monospace,monospace">and<br>
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          style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> - local home
          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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          style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Looking for ideas...</div>
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                        <td style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:11pt"><b>Adam
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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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