On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:43:10AM +0200, Richard Bos wrote: > What kind of impact does ltspfs have on the LDA method as described and > implemented by Umberto Nicolletto at http://www.unicolet.org/linux/ltsp.html > be part of (the next) ltsp or is this difficult to do, due to the patches to > Xreset and Xstart? Or will ltspfs take its place?
ltspfs will be the transport method to actually move the files back and forth between the terminal and the server, much like samba is used today. Actually plumbing the mounts, and doing all the required "magic" to make things "just work" is going to involve several things: Jim's gotten udev under the 2.6.xx kernels going on the terminal, which is going to substantially change the way the hotplugging's going to work. This will bring LTSP more into line with modern Linux distros. We're hoping to be able to solve the problem of notifying the server with Jim's new lbus, which will be the way that the terminal notifies the server of client changes. This will be heavily tied into udev rules so that plugging actions will fire off lbus events, and dynamically mount/unmout shares to the server, create icons, etc. What ltspfs is doing is creating a userspace implemented filesystem which is tuned to the quirks of trying to do remote removeable media support, which addresses some of the problems/shortcomings we've had with previous tries. Jim and I will be hacking on this in a fairly substative way this weekend (it's a long one for me, being Canadian Thanksgiving), and will be in the irc channel a fair bit, so if you'd like to pop on by, you'd be welcome to watch the progress. Scott -- (o_ Scott L. Balneaves | "You are the Universe's only chance to appreciate //\ Systems Department | its own beauty." V_/_ Legal Aid Manitoba | -- MSG, POE news forums
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