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[Beowulf] Fwd: NIS limitations question

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Greg Lindahl lindahl at pathscale.com
Mon Feb 6 13:37:46 PST 2006


On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:34:26AM +0300, Walid wrote:

> I belive i have seen on this maling list*, and other internet fourms** some
> limitation of NIS, but i have failed to find a documented limiation from
> SUN, or from the various linux distrubutions, did any one try to research
> the scalability of NIS servers?

The standard answer, if you only rarely push, is to make every client
a slave.

-- greg




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