history of homedirs on unices

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:55 AM -0400 9/24/05, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>On a system with a large number of users and spindles, very often
>there were multiple root directories used for home directories.  For
>example there would be a disk mounted as /users1 and it would
>have user's home directories of /users1/aaron and /users1/able and
>/users1/acton etc., and then there would be a disk mounted as /users2
>and it would have a bunch of home directories on it, etc.

In large Unix environments this can still be the case.  Sure most 
users have their own Unix box, or share one with a few others, but 
the home directories are out in NFS.  That way people can access 
their home directory from any system.  We typically use 
/foo/bar/username, and have dozens of home directory disks, spread 
over dozens of multi-terabyte fileservers.

		Zane


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