On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 17:32, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:12:30PM +0000, Jason McMullan wrote: > > Daniel Jarboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a generally accepted "best way" to upgrade/install packages > > > with RPM with a shared RO /usr across multiple images? > > Tooting my own horn a bit here, Linuxcare's Levanta product > > will handle this, and much more. > > Doesn't Levanta handle this by giving all the DASD to a single image and > have everyone else NFS-mount it? Not to say it's not effective, just
NFS prevents individual clients having any effective caching. That can be really bad over conventional networks, I dont know about S/390. It also gives you a single point of failure if the NFS supplier goes down
