[NTLUG:Discuss] Need advice for mirroring home directories

[Chris Cox]

Lance Simmons wrote:
> 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.

Something is just wrong.  Should not be seeing those kinds of hangs.
Shouldn't see any.

There can be file locking issues using NFS... but I doubt you're
seeing that.

> 
> 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.
> 

You're NFS approach should work....  not sure what the real issue
is.