Erik, Using the local disk as your root filesystem would only reduce the traffic during the bootup. which only takes about a minute anyway. After the kernel and the Xserver are loaded, there's almost zero nfs traffic, so throughout normal operation, you wouldn't be saving anything at all.
Besides, LTSP is built around the idea of removing all moving parts, to increase uptime. Put a spinning disk in there, and 1) It will fail. 2) it will generate more heat. 3) More heat means you definately need a fan. 4) Having a fan in the system means you'll be sucking dust in. 5) Sucking dust in means the system will eventually overheat because the heat sink will get clogged. I say, keep things simple. Get rid of moving parts, and that workstation will last for many years. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Erik Proper wrote: > Hi, > Suppose you have a PC you want to use as an X-Terminal, and suppose it > has a local disk. Now suppose you want to use that disk to optimize the > system. > The first thing to do is, to use the disk to do the initial boot (after > which the kernel > is loaded over the network). The second thing to do is to use part of the > disk as a swappartition (Done!). > > The next thing you MAY want to do is reduce network traffic (will it > ...?) to the > X-Terminal by using a local partition as it's root. Would this reduce > network traffic > (seriously)? If so, it's worthwhile investigating on how to do this. I > would imagine > it to make sense to have the X-Terminal (during boot) synchronise it's > local root > filesystem with the root file system available on the server. This may > require > some changes in the initrd of the network kernel. First question though > .. would it > be worthwhile in terms of reducted network traffic. After all, all the > X-Terminal > does is run X. > > Cheers, > Erik > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
