[K12OSN] 2-server setup

[Krsnendu dasa]

I guess putting /home on its own machine would also provide a
performance benefit too.
Is this right?

On 31/01/07, David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only 'gotcha' with using just two servers is that if you upgrade the
> server that is hosting /home and also is the LDAP master, it is more tedious
> and (in my view) more a pain since you have to potentially setup LDAP again,
> and make sure that /home isn't lost.  I guess you could redesignate the LDAP
> master to the server you are not upgrading as well as moving /home to it,
> and switch their roles. I use a server which is dedicated to hosting /home
> and running as the LDAP master.  Then, my K12LTSP servers are LDAP slaves
> (thanks to the wonderful script supplied by Matt Olmquist (?) and David
> Trask).  This way, upgrading the K12LTSP servers is relatively risk free in
> the sense that if K12LTSP installs, then you are almost done once you copy
> over all of the conf (dhcp, cups, ltsp) files that you needed to save.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dave Hopkins
>
>
>
>
> On 1/29/07, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at mac.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 08:42 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote:
> > > On 30/01/07, Todd O'Bryan < toddobryan at mac.com> wrote:
> > > > mostly to have one in case the other dies. How hard is it going to be
> to
> > > > set up one as an LDAP server and remote mount its /home on the other
> > >
> > > Just to mention...not very hard at all. And you will also have to
> > > setup LDAP with master slave configuration on two servers.
> >
> > Thanks for the reassurance. That's my project on Wednesday.
> >
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