On Fri Jan 12 16:45 2001 -0500, Steve Losen wrote:
You've seen a couple votes for a large auto_home map. If you would still like to avoid that, then instead create a directory of 1000 symlinks on one of your filers like this:
/vol/vol0/home/usera -> /net/filer1-0/usera /vol/vol0/home/userb -> /net/filer2-1/userb
Actually, if you have LOTS of users and expect more, start a hierarchy now. You don't want a single directory with thousands of links or directories.
I'd recommend:
/home/a/ab/abb/abba /home/m/mi/mik/mikeh
Do the 3 level from the start and avoid the performance hit of many files in a single directory for lookups, when apps need to stat . .. etc.
You can just place a-k on filer 1 and l-z on filer 2 (they tend to divide up that way with common names). Later, you can expand that to more filers, if needed, just move one letter at a time.
Mike