hi Todd On 10-11-23 10:35 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > I create a fat-client chroot that has a bunch of stuff in it. In > particular, in my lab I teach programming, so I've got a few > programming languages installed, Google Chrome, etc. Then I run > ltsp-update-kernels, ltsp-update-image, and ltsp-update-sshkeys, just > to make sure everything got updated. > > Now, does the fat-client download *everything* in the chroot into RAM, > or does it mount the chroot remotely and only download what it needs > to boot, loading the other stuff from (the server's) disk as it needs > it? I guess what I'm asking is, is the part that the client gets over > the network to boot considerably more for a fat-client than a > thin-client, or is it about the same, with the fat-client then > mounting the files it needs on the server?
To boot up it uses about just the same resources as a normal thin client. It only reads the data as it's required, just like it would when reading from a local hard disk. -Jonathan -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
