On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:24:59PM +0100, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Chris, does the slowness apply if over the LAN not over the Internet?
Well to an extent yes. A local hard disk is a whole lot faster than even Gigabit networking (assuming a modern SATA hard disk that is of course).
Take your point about /home on a share. I must look up how to do this, do you know any guides?
It's very simple, firstly you need to have nfs-kernel-server installed on the server (this is the name in Debian/Ubuntu).
Then on the server edit the file /etc/exports, comments in the file show you what's needed, on my server called dps I have:-
/ 192.168.1.1/24(rw,no_root_squash,async,no_subtree_check)
On the client just mount the nfs drive in /etc/fstab:-
dps:/ /dps nfs _netdev,auto
Obviously this mounts the *whole* of the / filesystem on dps so that clients can see it, in your case you'd replace / with /home.