Can I install rush on an NFS server, to avoid installing locally on each machine?
No! Please see step#1 of the install instructions, which warns: WARNING: As with all daemons and their config files, do *not* install the rush directory or binaries on an NFS mounted drive. Keep rush binaries local to each machine. The main reasons: • Having executables demand page over NFS means the daemons will be dependent on the health of the NFS server. NFS ‘hangs’ can freeze the daemon in an unkillable state, and will make them unresponsive to the interactive apps. This also kills the whole fault tolerant ‘distributed’ design of Rush, which is to not be dependent on the health of any one server. The daemons are carefully written so as not to be depndent on any other server, keeping them responsive even when NFS servers or even license servers are rebooting. • Rushd reads/writes files in the rush/var directory. If the rush dir is NFS mounted, you absolutely must make provsions to ensure at least the var directory is local on each machine, or the daemons will all write over each ot
