Messages in this thread | | | From | Greg Lindahl <> | Subject | Re: Linux & NFS caching: reducing TCO | Date | Thu, 13 May 1999 06:23:51 -0400 (EDT) |
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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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