You'd also be able to install a new program or make a tweak without having to rebuild the image and restart the clients, wouldn't you?
Based on what you said, I feel less inclined to worry about the size of the image, but the issue above is annoying. I also still haven't figured out a good way to install/update programs that use a GUI installer/update. Especially annoying are Eclipse plugins, because the easiest way to update them is from the Help menu in a running Eclispe instance, but I can't figure out how to run it from inside the chroot and any changes made at a client don't make it back to the image. Todd On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > Στις 02-01-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:52 -0500, ο/η Todd O'Bryan > έγραψε: >> In other words, can I just start with the bare minimum image and then >> install all the other programs I want somewhere and mount that from >> the server? > > Why? What are you trying to gain? > The fat client image isn't loaded in the client RAM. Similarly to USB > disks, the client only reads the sectors it needs each time. > So you can have e.g. 5 Gb fat images without any problem at all. > > Now if you put those 5 Gb to the server file system instead, > because of lack of compression (NBD can be compressed, see the wiki), > the same folders would need about 12.5 Gb, > and that would make the fat client disk access about 2.5 times slower > because of the lack of compression, > plus a couple of times even more slower because of the ext/nfs/whatever > overhead (NBD/squashfs is block-based and read-only, so it's more > efficient). > > So to sum up, > if you did what you want, > you'd get about 5 times slower disk access, > and your only benefit would be that ltsp-update-image would finish a few > seconds sooner. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex > infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to > virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual > desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure > costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _____________________________________________________________________ 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
