Re: Audacity and Gentoo

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Ian Rawlings announced authoritatively:
> I avoid this by having most of my home dirs on the discs of the
> machines they're on but that's fine for me as I only have two desktop
> machines and only one user, me, despite having 12 machines.

Wow. That makes the largest total I was ever part of (three users, 8
machines) look small.

Don't you have a slight *noise* problem? :)

>> The 2GB limit (I thought it was 4GB for Samba?) is why I mentioned
>> cifs, which doesn't have that limit. But the bad handling of
>> attributes and ownership makes it less useful than NFS.
>
> I'v never tried CIFS, I've been meaning to try Coda sometime,
> potentially useful for laptops as it handles local file cacheing. I
> think there are better alternatives now though, haven't looked at it
> for at least a year.

Look out: Coda scales really, *really* badly. A gig of RAM+swap consumed
for each 15Gb of filesystem sort of badly.

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