Install Cygwin on mounted drive for multiple concurrent users on multiple machines?
David Macek
david.macek.0@gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 07:17:00 GMT 2015
On 19. 11. 2015 23:52, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I didn't see this in the Cygwin FAQ (perhaps I didn't look carefully
> enough or perhaps it is too obvious a question).
>
> Instead of installing Cygwin on each Windows machine, is it
> advisable to install it once on a public mounted drive? Then not only
> multiple users (concurrent or not) could use Cygwin on multiple
> machines (concurrently or not) from one place. Since many of the
> machines I want to install Cygwin are short of disk space on the local
> drive, but there seems to be sufficient space for a slightly larger
> than minimal Cygwin installation on a public drive, is this advisable?
> I guess I'd see a performance hit if Cygwin were not installed on a
> local drive. Are there any other concerns?
Potential concerns:
- location of home directories (same as Windows, or in $cygwinroot/home, or somewhere else)
- location of tmp (one shared in $cygwinroot/home, or per-user, or something else)
- location of var, for example for apps that put pidfiles there (one shared, per-user, else)
Essentially, as with any other shared app with possibly concurrent use, the program directory should ideally be read-only and any user-generated state gets written in per-user directories.
I'm also suspicious of whether advanced filesystem features will work on a network path, e.g. deleting/updating files/binaries when in use.
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David Macek
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