Major upgrade failure -> people maintain > 1 computer
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Dec 7 20:19:31 UTC 2011
> > did you ever work in an environment with a lot of servers and
> > users and used rsync / nfs?
>
> Why would you even consider using Fedora in such an environment? If you have a
> server farm with shared users and use rsync/nfs/whatever, and you have the
Why not (rsync btw translates names fine)
> whole thing (or a part of it) running on Fedora, then you'd better be prepared
> to do some nontrivial amount of work when upgrading the Fedora machines.
And presumably RHEL in future.
> your backup infrastructure, and make sure that you have a contigency plan to
> remap users back and forth in case you need to recover anything from an older
> backup... Etc...
Remind me never to hire you as a consultant 8)
I would suggest the simpler approach is to "man nfsidmap"
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