Re: /usr/src on NFS

[David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org>]

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Rickard Borgmäster wrote:

>Would it be a bad idea to mount /usr/src from NFS? Would that be terribly
>slow? As the /usr/obj would be local, I hope builds wouldn't be that
>slow afterall, but maybe I'm wrong?
>
>The reason I thought of this, is that I could have one machine with
>the /usr/src shared on NFS, daily updated from NFS, and then there
>is no need to redistribute the updated sources.

Only you can decide what's too slow, so try it.  If I can do it with a
Linux NFS export mounted on Solaris (and I can), I'm sure you'll be
fine.  One caveat, though; make sure you're using ntpd, and keep your
times accurate on those two systems.  Otherwise you'll get
timestamp-related errors when you build.

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