[NTLUG:Discuss] Need advice for mirroring home directories

[Lance Simmons]

I've been using NFS on my wireless network at home so that my wife and
kids can have access to their /home directory from different machines.
They sometimes complain about the performance.  After ignoring their
complaints for awhile, I've looked at the evidence (e.g., GNOME or KDE
hanging for 30 seconds up to a couple of minutes at a time), and it
seems they have a point: there do seem to be times when there are
serious lag problems because of using the NFS /home directory on another
machine.

I wonder if it would be better to switch over to mirroring their /home
directories on the different machines.  Does anyone have any advice for
how to do that?  Since not all the machines are on at the same time, it
seems like it would be hard to keep things reliably synchronized.

-- 
Lance Simmons
Recent history screams that we are fast becoming a nation of suspects, in
which vocal dissent is a legal cause for monitoring.
		-- Bill Johnson, Columnist, Rocky Mountain News, July 31, 2004