Re: NBD and shared local devices?

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 12:56, Christian Fischer wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've seen you are using NBD instead of NFS for accessing local devices.
You can choose from Samba or NBD. Samba is the prefered method because
it is more "platform independent".
Anyway, you can add NFS server if you prefer.
> What are the main reasons for using NBD? I've read it is faster and it is 
> possible to put any file system on it. But if someone has mounted NBD rw it 
> must be assured that no one else will have it mounted. In my case different 
> users working at the same time on the same client (every user has his own 
> xsession). What about the accessiability of local devices in this case?
I didn't understand why you have different users at the same time in the
thin client.
> 
> Christian
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