[kdepim-users] Re: Akonadi + nfs home directories

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 31 March 2011, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Am 31.03.2011 09:50, schrieb Lars Behrens:
> > Am 29.03.2011 20:20, schrieb Martin (KDE):
> >> huch, I never knew that there is a problem with akonadi and nfs. I
> >> use nfs home drives since many years without major problems.
> > 
> > You can use kdepim with the same account on different boxes? Even
> > with the same user logged in on different boxes at the same time?
> > I'd be interested in your setup then.
> 
> No, not login from different boxes at the same time. This does not
> make sense for me as a user can only sit in front of one computer.
> 
> > We didn't get it to work here, tried (4 different users on 3 pcs, 2
> > of them 64bit, 1 32bit, 3 of that existing ones, 1 a brandnew test
> > account):
> > 
> > * default setup with automatic migration from file based usage
> > * switching off (or not using) akonadi in kaddressbook
> > * using an external mysql server
> 
> In general I have the fear that the latest development directions are
> not realy enterprise safe. Many of these new things are fine for
> single user computers, but if it comes to network centric stuff many
> things fail (akonadi, digikam ...). To my opinion they chose the
> wrong assumption that all files are on the local hard drive.

Your assumption about our assumption is wrong. For us enterprise means 
IMAP, LDAP and/or a PIM server (Kolab, Exchange, etc.). IOW, nothing 
(except for cached data) is local.


> Back to akonadi: If these data are pure caching data, this should
> never go to home directory. The same is true for thumbnail cache.
> These data are better placed in /var/tmp.

Yeah. Makes sense. So the problem is that we use /home (which is mounted 
via nfs) instead of /var/tmp?


Regards,
Ingo
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