rowe@cme.nist.gov (Walter Rowe) (11/17/90)
Archive-name: depot/15-Nov-90 Original-posting-by: rowe@cme.nist.gov (Walter Rowe) Original-subject: Re: NFS Mount Point Strategy? Archive-site: durer.cme.nist.gov [129.6.32.4] Archive-directory: /pub Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) You may want to read a paper that some colleagues and myself wrote recently. Its called "The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation Across Organizational and Unix Platform Bounderies". It details a mechanism we came up with here in our center for sharing large application distributions such as X windows, GNU software, and Frame Maker. You can get the paper from durer.cme.nist.gov (129.6.32.4) in a file called ~ftp/pub/depot.lisa.ps.Z. This paper was presented at the LISA conference in Colorado Springs last month. I welcome all to read it. We use the automounter here extensively for this type of thing, and the depot paper outlines some naming conventions we decided on here. wpr --- Walter Rowe rowe@cme.nist.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!rowe