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SubjectRe: Linux & NFS caching: reducing TCO
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> in order to minimize the amount of time used for system maintenance, upgrading
> etc. for our institute network (one main "file server" for /home, rest
> "clients", near-complete 100 mbit installation) we thought about letting the
> clients run diskless. A first test showed that this is quite easy to do and
> really gives the benefit of one central installation for all clients.

If that's a benefit. A clever admin can administer an entire cluster
like it was one machine. And you don't have the performance minus. And
then its not a kernel issue.

-- g

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