Antonio R. Barbado Portillo wrote: > In Netstation project , thin clients boot about RAMDISK INITRD only. > Why LTSP do not take this feature??? > A real thin client not need a FS and not run local app. > This feature is better or no? Its more effective.
Unless I'm mistaken, LTSP does use initrd, which most certainly does contain a file system. Clients do need to run at least one app locally (after all the boot-up scripts in initrd), either telnet or an X server. Since the executables are in files, a file system is required. Since all the files involved total to a sizable amount, they are not stored on a diskless client. Instead, they are stored on a server, so the Network File System is used to access them. I'm sure something other than NFS could be used, but whatever it was would have to solve the same problem of providing a file system over a network. -- Jeff Jackowski http://ro.com/~jeffj/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
